National and homeland security threats in the cyber realm are real and growing. HSPI has long followed cyber security and deterrence and will continue to remain focused on this critical issue.
CyberStrategy 2.0
by Frank J. Cilluffo and J. Paul Nicholas
Journal of International Security Affairs
April 2006
Great minds have grappled with the manifestations of the information age for decades. Recently, however, it has been one of the information age’s most loved and feared catalysts—the Internet—that has taken center stage in national security planning. Even as the Internet went public in the early 1990s, strategic thinkers were already wrestling with its potential implications for communications, commerce, and even conflict. More
Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge
by Frank J. Cilluffo, Sharon L. Cardash, and Michele Ledgerwood
A Report of the CSIS Homeland Defense Project
May 21, 2001
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Cyber-Attack: The National Protection Plan and Its Privacy Implications
by Frank J. Cilluffo
Journal of Homeland Security
November 2000
The information technology revolution has given us an unrivalled, perhaps unsurpassable, lead over the rest of the world in virtually every facet of modern life. Unfortunately there is a “dark side” to this revolution. Along with the clear rewards come new risks and a litany of unintended consequences that need to be better understood and managed by our industry and government leaders. More
Cyber Threats: Ten Issues to Consider
by Frank J. Cilluffo and Paul Byron Pattak
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Volume 1, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2000
While few adversaries would attempt to confront the United States in a conventional war on the traditional battlefield, its adversaries recognize that terrorism and other asymmetric forms of conflict, such as cyber attacks, are more effective methods of striking the United States where it is most vulnerable. More
The Internet: A Portal to Violent Islamist Extremism
Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo, HSPI Director
Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
May 3, 2007
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Who’s in Charge
Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo, Co-chairman, Cyber Threats Task Force, Homeland Defense Project, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Reform
October 4, 2001
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Wired World: Cyber Security and the U.S. Economy
Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo, Co-chairman, Cyber Threats Task Force, Homeland Defense Project, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
June 21, 2001
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Cyber Attack: The National Protection Plan and its Privacy Implications
Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo, Deputy Director, Organized Crime Project Director, Task Force on Information Warfare & Information Assurance, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information
February 1, 2000
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Cyber Deterrence Symposium
Policy & Research Forum Special Event
Co-hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance
November 2, 2009
Event Summary, On Demand Video, and Resources
"Technology in Homeland Security: A Double-Edged Sword"
Policy & Research Forum
June 9, 2008
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Event Highlights
Put Cybersecurity Chief in DHS not the White House, Senator Says
Computer World
November 3, 2009
"Delivering a speech on cybersecurity issues at George Washington University on Monday, Collins rejected the idea of a White House led cybersecurity effort and insisted the leadership would have to come from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." More
Senate's Cybersecurity Legislation Faces a Tangled Organizational Web
Congressional Quarterly
November 3, 2009
"Cybersecurity is so broad a subject that any legislation raises questions of economics and trade, technology and regulation, government structure and privacy, foreign policy and national security. 'The issue itself transcends and touches almost everything we as a government do,' said Frank Cilluffo, director of George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute." More
Conference Brings Deterrence Into the Cybersecurity Conversation
Congressional Quarterly
November 2, 2009
"For an event dealing with the digital world, there were a lot of concepts addressed at a Monday Homeland Security Policy Institute forum on “cyberdeterrence” that seemed rooted in Cold War-era discussions about nuclear weapons. Organizers at The George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute said they hosted the forum because cyberdeterrence — an idea within the broader topic of cybersecurity that suggests a more proactive approach than pure defense, including the use of statecraft — is often neglected. But for eight hours, everything, beginning with the very definition of cyberdeterrence itself, was on the table." More
Collins: DHS Is Where Cybercoordinator Belongs
Congressional Quarterly
November 2, 2009
"Collins has 'serious questions' about the effectiveness of any cybercoordinator in the White House, regardless of the position’s relationship with Congress, staff said. 'We don’t need yet another White House czar, a czar that would conflict with duties established elsewhere,' she said at a forum hosted by The George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute. Instead, she said she wants to see a cybersecurity center within the Department of Homeland Security with an 'empowered' director that could have a broad range of new authority." More
Sen. Collins Says No to WH Cybersecurity Coordinator
FederalNewsRadio
November 2, 2009
"Collins addressed the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, where she announced that she and Lieberman, for the moment, are agreeing to disagree on the cybersecurity coordinator job: 'Now some have suggested that this effort can best be led from the White House. I've reached a different conclusion. Truly securing our nation's information technology infrastructure will require more than high-level strategy and coordination.'" More
Collins Details Plan for Cybersecurity Director
NextGov
November 2, 2009
"Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ranking member Susan Collins today called for creating a Senate-confirmed director of federal cybersecurity who would be based at the Homeland Security Department rather than the White House. 'Some have suggested that this effort can best be led from the White House. I've reached a different conclusion,' Collins said told an audience at an event hosted by the George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute." More
Eye Opener: The Cybersecurity Debate Intensifies
The Washington Post
November 2, 2009
The Federal Eye Blog previews some of Senator Susan Collins remarks at HSPI's Cyber Deterrence Symposium. More
Cybersecurity Symposium to Kick off Week in Homeland Security
Congressional Quarterly
November 2, 2009
While most of the cybersecurity discussion in Washington focuses on protecting computer networks from foreign enemies and domestic hackers, a Homeland Security Policy Institute symposium on Monday will attempt to steer the conversation toward building an infrastructure that can deal with digital threats proactively.
“Security in itself is insufficient,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of the HSPI, a nonpartisan think tank at George Washington University. “We can’t build a moat. . . . The reality is that the capacity to attack our infrastructure is within the grasp of some of our potential attackers, so we need to examine our defenses while making sure that we’re not hamstringing our offensive capabilities.” More
Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age, Part 2
MediaShift (PBS)
March 5, 2009
In a report on how public diplomacy may be one avenue to prevent large scale online attacks, HSPI director Frank J. Cilluffo notes that without effectual public diplomacy gains, the specter of cyber-terrorism will grow more vivid as a new digitally savvy generation of would-be terrorists comes of age. More
Border, Internet cited in U.S. terror threat assessment
Associated Press
December 26, 2008
The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security, and increasing Internet savvy, according to a new federal intelligence assessment obtained by the Associated Press. More
Frank J. Cilluffo, Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute
Frank has served as Director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute since joining The George Washington University in April 2003. He also serves as the University’s Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, where he leads GW’s homeland security efforts on policy, research, education, and training. The Institute’s recent policy and research agenda has spanned terrorism and radicalization, disaster management and emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza planning and bio-defense, intelligence and information sharing, and a host of other national and homeland security matters. Prior to joining HSPI, Frank served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security at the White House. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he was appointed by the President to the newly created Office of Homeland Security, and served as a principal advisor to Governor Ridge. Prior to his White House appointment, Cilluffo spent eight years in senior positions with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, where he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare. More
Michael Edwards
Corporate Director, AF C3 & Cyber Programs, Northrop Grumman
Former Director of Operations, Air Force Combat Support Office
Colonel, US Air Force (Ret)
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Randall Fort
Director of Programs Security, Raytheon Company
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Jessica Herrera-Flanigan
Partner, Monument Policy Group
Former Staff Director and General Counsel, House Committee on Homeland Security
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