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Last week, we convened experts from government, academia and industry to discuss our new paper calling for a more ambitious UK cyber strategy, one that rebalances responsibility and tackles persistent market failures.
Watch the recording:
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🎙️Cyber attacks are on the rise and the threats impact us all. RUSI's @MrJamesSullivan spoke to @DrillPod about the scale and nature of cyber attacks, and how governments can respond. Listen below!
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Peter Kyle raised eyebrows last year when he said he was made, just hours into office, “very very aware that there was a cybersecurity challenge that our country faced that I simply wasn’t aware of before.”
We report a secret briefing was responsible: therecord.media/cyberattack-…
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This year at the CyberUK conference, the UK government announced it would publish a new National Cyber Strategy before the end of 2025. In response, six industry and civil society experts to share their perspectives on what the government should consider for the new strategy.
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📺Speaking on @CNN, RUSI's @Eurasia21cntry expressed concerns about the effectiveness of the security guarantees being discussed to end the war in Ukraine. You can watch the full interview below. #AlaskaSummit
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We're thrilled to announce that Dr Ian Levy is joining us as a Distinguished Fellow. As the VP/Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Security, Dr Levy brings a wealth of experience, including previously leading the technical cybersecurity work at GCHQ: bit.ly/3JdbYFH
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Ever wondered how Quantum, AI, Space, or Telecoms impact national security? Our new expert briefings bridge the gap between technology and policy, offering crucial insights for a complex world. Learn more on our website.
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The release of the National Security Strategy lays out a troubling picture of the UK's place in an increasingly hostile and volatile world. RUSI experts offer their reaction to the major strategic document, and the light it sheds on the Britain's response.
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Email accounts belonging to a well-known British expert on Russia were targeted with a highly customized and novel social engineering attack that relied on the use of app-specific passwords (ASPs) to get around multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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The SDR outlines sensible steps to improve defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves details to be developed, particularly about how the UK should operate in cyberspace, writes @josephdevanny in the latest #RUSICommentary. rusi.org/explore-our-researc…
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We are happy to support our LE partners!
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that's in today's Sunday Times (£), where there's some excellent contributions from @MTSavill too thetimes.com/article/5b512ee…
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Researchers find "notable decline in ... quantity and depth" of Western cyber firms' reports on Western APTs, suggesting "transition from an earlier 'Age of Innocence' driven by business motives" to a "increasingly influenced" by politics." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Refs to cyber and disruptive tech (very broad) in the EU-UK Summit's Security & Defence Partnership doc:
-Coop on cyber threat landscape, policy frameworks and in multilat fora.
-Coop to prevent,deter & respond to malicious cyber activities, including through diplomatic measures.
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🚨🧵New RUSI report, ‘Maximising UK-German Defence and Security‘ by @EdArnold_RUSI (in partnership with @KAS_UKIRL) is out now!
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Commentary for @RUSI_org
Technical Security: Back to the Future by @profserious
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'It is essential that security professionals pay far greater attention to technical security.' writes @profserious in the latest #RUSICommentary.
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The latest #RUSICommentary by Ciaran Martin explores the significant shift in China as a cyber threat actor, and outlines its new political, strategic and active footing in cyberspace which facilitates disruptive operations against Western critical infrastructure.
The transformation of China’s digital attack capabilities is the most important change in the cyber threat to the West in more than a decade, writes Ciaran Martin.
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