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IST Contributes to the International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit for the Fourth Consecutive Year: Exercises, Workshops, and Private Sector Advisory Panel

IST Contributes to the International Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit for the Fourth Consecutive Year: Exercises, Workshops, and Private Sector Advisory Panel

Over the last four years, IST has been a critical partner to the International Counter Ransomware Initiative's coalition of governments and other key partners in their effort to coordinate global actions against ransomware. This October, IST’s Steve Kelly, Elizabeth Vish, and Gigi Flores Bustamante joined the CRI’s fifth summit in Singapore to deliver IST’s research on public-private partnerships to combat cybercrime.

counter ransomware initiative, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, international collaboration, Public-private partnerships, Ransomware, Singapore, TTX

December 10, 2025

Giving Tuesday 2025: IST’s Impact

Giving Tuesday 2025: IST’s Impact

Every day, the work we do at IST makes a difference, from driving Congress to consider new approaches to intractable problems, to bringing national security leaders together to ensure they consider the existential threat of AI, to arming K-12 schools with the tools they need to defend against ransomware. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, this is only possible because of the generous support of our partners and donors.

AI, artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, Giving Tuesday, national security, Ransomware

December 2, 2025

Putting Research into Policy Action: IST and the Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Join Forces to Tackle AI Risk

Putting Research into Policy Action: IST and the Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Join Forces to Tackle AI Risk

By convening developers, deployers, national security professionals, and policymakers, IST's AI Risk Reduction Initiative maps both the opportunities and risks of frontier AI and designs corresponding mitigation strategies. A recent collaboration between IST and the Korea AI Safety Institute (AISI) exemplifies how international cooperation can advance our understanding of AI risks across multiple domains.

AI, AI safety, artificial intelligence, Korea, mapping, Republic of Korea, risk map

December 1, 2025

Q&A: Approaching the Nuclear Brink?

Q&A: Approaching the Nuclear Brink?

With nuclear tensions on the rise, nuclear weapons have been in the headlines, and on our screens, lately. In the latest edition of the TechnologIST, IST’s Nuclear Policy team, Sylvia Mishra, Sahil V. Shah, Brandon Cortino, and Catherine Murphy discuss what the latest developments could mean for global security and stability.

AI, artificial intelligence, Moscow Treaty, NC3, New START Treaty, nuclear policy, nuclear weapons, strategic stability

November 24, 2025

Negotiating Stability: Reflections on CSIS’ Future Arms Control Experts (FACE) Program

Negotiating Stability: Reflections on CSIS’ Future Arms Control Experts (FACE) Program

IST Senior Associate for Nuclear Policy Brandon Cortino spent the last year as a fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies FACE cohort, which aims to train the next generation of arms control negotiators. He shares lessons learned from his study of the 2002 Moscow Treaty signed by Presidents Bush and Putin. “It is clear future treaties must consider the myriad threats posed by poor AI integration into nuclear command, control, and communications, and great powers must find common ground and rally against destabilizing technologies,” he writes.

George W. Bush, hypersonic missile, Moscow Treaty, NC3, New START, nuclear, Russia, treaty, Vladimir Putin

November 18, 2025

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon – IST Hosts Book Talk with Author Ankit Panda

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon – IST Hosts Book Talk with Author Ankit Panda

IST’s Nuclear Policy team hosted international security expert and author Ankit Panda in Palo Alto to learn more about his latest book unpacking the trilateral nuclear competition between the United States, China, and Russia. IST CEO Philip Reiner sat down for a fireside chat with Ankit, highlighting in their discussion the need to collectively identify political and technical solutions to address the nexus of emerging technologies and the new nuclear age.

AI, and communications, artificial inteligence, China, control, NC3, nuclear, nuclear command, nuclear risk, Russia, United States

November 17, 2025