Preparing for the Next Attack: Improving State and Local Cybersecurity Measures
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2021) In a new policy study [1], R Street Senior Fellow John Bansemer, R Street Associate Fellow Greg Rattray and R Street Research Assistant Franklin Lee evaluated the challenges associated with improving state and local responses to cyber attacks. This study leverages existing reports; interviews with defenders at the state and municipal level; experts studying these challenges; and workshops conducted in conjunction with the New York Cyber Task Force.
The authors find that ransomware attacks are becoming more complex and targeted. However, data show that responses are improving despite increasing attacks and an expanding number of targets. That said, these positive trends highlight how state and local organizations should increase their vigilance and add protective measures a lack of ransomware attacks does not mean that there are no vulnerabilities.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Source: Getty
Summary: Russia has long struggled to overcome its inability to retain talent for homegrown innovation and R&D. As a result, Russiaâs global activism leans heavily on tried-and-true tactics.
Related Media and Tools
If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more!
Thank you!
Summary
How will the Kremlin’s tool kit evolve as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deepfake forgeries become more widespread?
Russia has long struggled to overcome the constraints imposed by the country’s chronic inability to retain talent in support of homegrown innovation and R&D. That reality may consign it to a follower role in the technological realm. Russia’s global activism continues to lean heavily on tried-and-true tactics and capabilities that are popping up more frequently in a variety of far-flung venues. The blatant and often sloppy nature of such efforts suggests the Russian leaders