This month at BSides Las Vegas, IST Executive in Residence Joshua Corman announced the launch of UnDisruptable27, a new initiative that seeks to inform, influence, and inspire community action to strengthen the safety and security of our lifeline critical infrastructure systems by 2027. Director of Strategic Communications Sophia Mauro sat down with Josh to learn more about the newly-launched effort.
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Blueprint for Ransomware Defense
Prepare, Don’t Pay: A Quick-Start Guide to Defending Against Ransomware
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Future of Digital Security
IST unveils new project, engages with White House at “Hacker Summer Camp”
The Institute for Security and Technology (IST)’s Steve Kelly and Josh Corman joined thousands of infosec experts, security professionals, journalists, government officials, and cyber enthusiasts at “hacker summer camp,” the cybersecurity conference trio of Black Hat, BSides, and DEF CON—amongst many other bespoke gatherings and meetings.
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Artificial Intelligence
Why I support Microsoft’s call on Protecting the Public from Abusive AI-Generated Content
Chief Trust Officer Steve Kelly writes to express his support for the Microsoft white paper on policies to protect people from from abusive AI-generated content.
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CATALINK
The CATALINK Initiative hosts webinar with the authors of “Improving Nuclear Hotlines”
On Thursday, July 19, the Institute for Security and Technology (IST)’s CATALINK Initiative held a virtual event with the authors of their latest report series, Improving Nuclear Hotlines: Relevance and Use Cases, to discuss the state of crisis communications in India, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
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Future of Digital Security
Hack the Plant Episode 37: The Case For A Cyber Force
In this episode, Bryson sits down with Mark Montgomery, Senior Director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. For three years, Mark served as Executive Director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, created by congressional mandate to develop strategic approaches to defending against cyber attacks. Now, he directs CSC 2.0, an initiative that works to implement the recommendations of the Commission.
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Applied Trust and Safety Initiative
2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man
Just as the character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride searched for the sixth finger as a telltale sign of the villain he sought to vanquish, deepfake images used to be easily distinguishable by the presence of anomalous characteristics such as superfluous fingers (often of “unusual size”). However, just in time for this year’s elections globally, spotting a deep fake is no longer straightforward due to the rapid progress of AI.
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Critical Infrastructure
Institute for Security and Technology and Cyber Threat Alliance Submit Comments on Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act
The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) and the Cyber Threat Alliance, along with co-signer Chainalysis, submitted comments this week in response to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act.
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