A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Prospects for U.S.-Japan-Europe Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific with Zack Cooper
In recent years, the world’s attention has shifted toward the Indo-Pacific. As concerns over the rise of China and other regional challenges have intensified, the US and Japan have taken steps to strengthen their security cooperation and Europe has [...]
Maurice Turner in WSJ: Ransomware Payments Should Not Be Made Illegal
Making ransomware payments illegal would eliminate one of the few options that victims have to recover their data and get back to work quickly. Time is money. Sometimes paying a ransom is less expensive than withholding one—and being forced to labor [...]
Laura Thornton in Civil Georgia: Perilous Choice: Georgia’s COVID Elections
Georgia’s local elections scheduled for October represent more than choosing important mayoral and sakrebulo (local council) positions. The political stakes are higher, than what the local elections usually entail. Based on the EU-negotiated agreeme [...]
Maurice Turner Gives Insight into Biden’s Cybersecurity Meeting with Private Sector on CBS News
President Biden is calling on the private sector to help bolster U.S. cybersecurity. He hosted leaders in tech, finance, education and infrastructure for a summit at the White House Wednesday. Maurice Turner, a cybersecurity fellow for the Alliance [...]
Kristine Berzina Discusses Disinformation in the Lead Up to Germany’s Federal Elections with NZZ
Disinformation, especially coming from Russia, is a growing problem. The goal: destabilize democracy. Explore the German Election Dashboard. [...]
Lindsay Gorman with NBR: China’s Data Ambitions
Lindsay Gorman details China’s data ambitions with a particular eye to how they relate to emerging technology goals associated with AI. She then discusses how these efforts complicate democratic values in cyberspace and analyzes options for how demo [...]
Zack Cooper in Foreign Affairs: America Still Needs to Rebalance to Asia
After ten years of talk, Washington must act, Co-Director Zack Cooper and Adam P. Liff argue in Foreign Affairs. This fall marks ten years since the Obama administration rolled out its famous “rebalance to Asia.” Standing before the Australian Par [...]
Maurice Turner Weighs in on Hack of U.S. Prosecutors on CBSN
The Justice Department found that some of the nation's most prominent federal prosecutors had their email accounts hacked last year during the Solarwinds cyber espionage campaign. Maurice Turner, a cybersecurity fellow with The Alliance For Securing [...]
Maurice Turner Discusses the White House’s New Task Force to Curb Ransomware on CBS News
Federal officials are looking to crack down on ransomware attacks that are attacking critical U.S. infrastructure by implementing a new multi-agency task force. The announcement comes just days after the notorious Russian-linked ransomware group, RE [...]
David Levine in NY Daily News: Don’t Use the Board of Elections’ Screwup to Undermine Confidence in Democracy
I don’t need to tell New Yorkers that the New York City Board of Elections badly bungled the release of preliminary ranked-choice results from the city’s recent mayoral primary. Between this serious mistake and many previous well-documented mishaps, [...]
Bret Schafer in Foreign Policy: China Fires Back at Biden with Conspiracy Theories About Maryland Lab
Since Washington launched the Wuhan lab leak investigation, Beijing has been pushing bizarre narratives. When the Biden administration announced it would reexamine the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab, Beijing’s response was deny an [...]
Maurice Turner Discusses the United States’ Ransomware Deterrent Strategy on CBS News
Our current ransomware deterrent strategy is "simply not working," Cybersecurity Fellow Maurice Turner said. President Biden says he will "deliver" a message to Russian President Putin over the massive global ransomware attack, believed to have or [...]