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Time to Designate Space Systems as Critical Infrastructure

Time to Designate Space Systems as Critical Infrastructure

by Frank Cilluffo, Mark Montgomery, Sharon L. Cardash and Kelsey Shields | Apr 14, 2023 | Cyber News

The U.S. today is in a different kind of space race, one whose satellites and advanced support systems are critical not just to our military, but to everyday activities like air travel, cell phone use, and banking. These systems help support the backbone of the...
US is running out of time to prepare for a Russian cyber attack / Fox News

US is running out of time to prepare for a Russian cyber attack / Fox News

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Mar 8, 2022 | Cyber News, Cybersecurity, Op-Ed

What comes next is anyone’s guess, and the window for our cyber readiness is closing fast. Why hasn’t cyber figured more prominently in Russia’s war on Ukraine? Russia is, after all, a powerhouse in this area having successfully cyber-attacked Estonia...
Backbone is everything, don’t be owned by your infrastructure: Lessons from Ukraine for America

Backbone is everything, don’t be owned by your infrastructure: Lessons from Ukraine for America

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Mar 1, 2022 | Cyber News, Op-Ed

Soviet Russia was the source of Ukraine’s infrastructure. If Taiwan were to fall to China, is the U.S. subject to the same fate? From that vantage point America starts to look a lot like Ukraine — so we must double down on efforts to deepen resilience. Read the...
Cyber diplomacy: Time to up our game

Cyber diplomacy: Time to up our game

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Feb 16, 2021 | Cyber News

2020 was a year of reckonings whose implications continue to unfold and spark calls for urgent remedial action. Cyber domain was no exception. The SolarWinds hack has prompted serious soul-searching about how it happened, and more importantly, what to do about it....
Cybersecurity guiding principles for emergency management

Cybersecurity guiding principles for emergency management

by Sharon L. Cardash | Oct 1, 2020 | Cyber News, Insights, National Security

McCrary Institute, CISA, and NEMA publish paper on cybersecurity guiding principles for emergency management Guiding Principles for Emergency Management on CybersecurityDownload
The Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure Is Real: It’s Past Time to Act Accordingly

The Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure Is Real: It’s Past Time to Act Accordingly

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Mar 14, 2020 | Cyber News

The threat to U.S. critical infrastructure posed by foreign state-owned enterprises is real and America is not doing enough to inoculate itself against it and effectively manage the risk to our economic and national security. View Article
Op-Ed in AL.com – After Soleimani: Iran and cyber domain

Op-Ed in AL.com – After Soleimani: Iran and cyber domain

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Jan 13, 2020 | Cyber News

By Sharon L. Cardash | Deputy director of Auburn’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. and Frank J. Cilluffo | Director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, and Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.The demise...
Cyber and Physical Security: Perspectives from the C-Suite

Cyber and Physical Security: Perspectives from the C-Suite

by Frank Cilluffo, Margaret W. Smith and Sharon L. Cardash | May 20, 2019 | Work

CCHS has released a new publication, Cyber and Physical Security: Perspectives from the C-Suite. The report contains the findings of a survey research project that CCHS conducted in partnership with the International Security Management Association (ISMA).The project...
What’s wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?

What’s wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | May 16, 2019 | Cyber News

The Chinese telecommunications company Huawei is under scrutiny around the globe over concerns that its close ties with the Chinese government present national security threats to the U.S., Europe and allied countries. President Donald Trump has issued...
What You Need to Know About the Upcoming GPS Rollover

What You Need to Know About the Upcoming GPS Rollover

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Apr 1, 2019 | Cyber News

Perhaps the most important event you’ve never heard of is scheduled to take place on April 6. That’s when the GPS rollover will occur. Without getting too far into the weeds, the Global Positioning System is one of the few but critical mechanisms that supports the...
Unintended consequence: Federal cybersecurity workforce a potential casualty of the shutdown

Unintended consequence: Federal cybersecurity workforce a potential casualty of the shutdown

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Jan 22, 2019 | Cyber News

The partial shutdown of the US government may well end up damaging cybersecurity but perhaps not in the way most commonly thought.The most common and understandable concern is that the country’s current ability to respond to an emergency in the cyber domain is...

With Hacking of U.S. Utilities, Russia Could Move from Cyberespionage toward Cyberwar

by Frank Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash | Jul 26, 2018 | Cyber News, National Security, Op-Ed

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