A couple of weekends ago I attended Western State University Law Review’s National Security Symposium, featuring keynote speaker, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.  The dean’s speech focused on the Supreme Court’s “failure” to uphold the Constitution and served as an introduction to the afternoon panel on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs.  The […]

Western State University’s Law Review is hosting a symposium tomorrow entitled, “The Constitutionality and Consequences of America’s Use of Drones and the NSA Spying Program.”  Dean at University of California–Irvine School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, will be the keynote speaker.  The symposium, moderated in part by Professor Ryan T. Williams, will also feature two distinguished […]

Are cybersecurity efforts focusing too much on the “how” and not enough on the “why”?  That’s the position of “Strategic Cyber Intelligence,” a report published by the nonprofit organization Intelligence and National Security Alliance, which is comprised of “current and former high-ranking intelligence, military and government agency leaders, analysts, and experts from industry and academia.” By […]

The Rand Corporation has published a report detailing the fundamental characteristics of black and gray cybercrime markets, explaining their evolution into the threat we see today, and illustrating how their very existence can harm the information security environment. The report boils down to two key findings: The community of cybercriminals is growing.  Essentially, the Rand […]

In a speech by Chuck Hagel at the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland last Friday, the Defense Secretary stated that while the United States’ mission is not to “militarize” cyberspace, the Pentagon does have plans to increase our nation’s defenses against network attacks, including nearly tripling the U.S. […]