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Navigating AI Compliance, Part 1: Tracing Failure Patterns in History

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Navigating AI Compliance, Part 1: Tracing Failure Patterns in History

What is the risk of compliance failure in AI foundation models, and how can it be mitigated? The AI Risk Reduction Initiative’s latest report analyzes the history of failures across industries in an effort to avoid future pitfalls, and offers practical frameworks and definitions for practitioners navigating the complex compliance landscape. The first of a two-part series, this report examines 11 case studies from AI-adjacent industries to identify three distinct failure categories: institutional, procedural, and performance.
artificial inteligence, compliance, cybersecurity, Future of Digital Security
December 10, 2024
SecOps “where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood”

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SecOps “where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood”

“We live in glass houses, and people are about to start throwing rocks,” Josh Corman told TechTarget’s IT Ops Query podcast. Josh sat down with Beth Pariseau to discuss UnDisruptable27 and the threat nation states pose to our critical infrastructure systems.
critical infrastructure, cyber attacks, nation state threats
October 31, 2024
Why Venture Capital Is Indispensable for U.S. Industrial Strategy: Activating Investors to Realize Disruptive National Capabilities

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Why Venture Capital Is Indispensable for U.S. Industrial Strategy: Activating Investors to Realize Disruptive National Capabilities

How can the U.S. realize disruptive national capabilities and establish technological leadership in the geostrategic competition with China? From IST’s Strategic Balancing Initiative, a new report calls for harnessing the power of the venture capital industry to unlock innovation, and offers insights for policymakers & practitioners.  
China, industrial strategy, quantum, research and development, techno-industrial competition, venture capital
October 15, 2024
The Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Shifting the Offense-Defense Balance

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The Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Shifting the Offense-Defense Balance

Advances in AI present key cybersecurity opportunities, but how might malicious actors utilize the same technology? IST’s latest report investigates the state of existing and potential integrations of AI in cybersecurity based on our research & interviews with industry stakeholders and puts forward 7 priority recommendations.
agentic, AI, artificial intelligence, cyber, cybersecurity, deepfakes, offense-defense balance, software
October 10, 2024
Plano de ação de defesa contra o ransomware

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Plano de ação de defesa contra o ransomware

Plano de ação para as pequenas e médias empresas em matéria de mitigação, resposta e recuperação de programas de sequestro de dados
Blueprint for Ransomware Defense, cyber attacks, defense, Future of Digital Security, Portuguese, Ransomware, RTF
September 24, 2024
IST’s Efforts in an Age of AI: An Overview

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IST’s Efforts in an Age of AI: An Overview

IST began exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on national security and global stability in 2017. Since then, we have engaged with a diverse array of stakeholders across the AI ecosystem to produce risk mitigation strategies, useful tools and frameworks, and recommendations.
AI, national security, recommendations, risk-mitigation
September 19, 2024
UnDisruptable27 Project Wants to Shore Up Critical Infrastructure Security

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UnDisruptable27 Project Wants to Shore Up Critical Infrastructure Security

In Dark Reading, IST’s Josh Corman & Megan Stifel and funder Craig Newmark explain the need for UnDisruptable27. “Whether it’s food or shelter or warmth, everyone relies on infrastructure to live. Bad actors know that,” Craig said. “This isn’t alarmism.”
cyber attacks, Cyber Civil Defense, infrastructure, security
September 11, 2024
Cyber Initiative Pegs 2027 as Infrastructure Defense Deadline

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Cyber Initiative Pegs 2027 as Infrastructure Defense Deadline

“The project, which is called UnDisruptable27, wants society to prepare for near-future geopolitical conflicts in which cyber attacks are aimed at Americans’ access to water, medical care, power and food,” writes Government Technology’s Jule Pattison-Gordon.
2027, critical infrastructure, cyber attacks, geopolitical conflict
August 14, 2024
IST pilot targets preparing hospitals, water systems for China-backed cyber threats

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IST pilot targets preparing hospitals, water systems for China-backed cyber threats

Josh Corman sat down with Inside Cybersecurity’s Jacob Livesay to discuss the project and its aims. “For a long time, I’ve been saying we’re over-dependent on undependable things,” Josh explained.
critical infrastructure, cyber, hospital cybersecurity, water
August 14, 2024
A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

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A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

WIRED's Lily Hay Newman interviewed Josh Corman on the launch of UnDisruptable27. "A longtime critical infrastructure security researcher is launching a project to communicate with utility operators, municipalities, and regular people in creative ways about both urgency and optimism around protecting critical infrastructure now,” writes Newman.
BSides, China, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity
August 6, 2024
Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

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Unlocking U.S. Technological Competitiveness: Proposing Solutions to Public-Private Misalignments

This concept paper, the third and last working paper in the series, lays out how a third round of working group meetings further explored those initial solutions, building out specific ways to operationalize them, identifying specific questions that need to be addressed to achieve these goals, and suggesting potential mechanisms for achieving them
biotech, China, energy, industrial strategy, quantum
June 28, 2024
The Phone-a-Friend Option: Use Cases for a U.S.-U.K.-French Crisis Communication Channel

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The Phone-a-Friend Option: Use Cases for a U.S.-U.K.-French Crisis Communication Channel

This brief outlines the case for a multilateral crisis communication channel between the heads of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
France, nuclear crisis communications, United Kingdom, United States
June 26, 2024
China: Nuclear Crisis Communications and Risk Reduction

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China: Nuclear Crisis Communications and Risk Reduction

In this brief, IST's Sylvia Mishra interviewed Dr. Tong Zhao for his insights on China’s approach to crisis communications and nuclear risk reduction.
China, nuclear crisis communications, nuclear risk reduction
June 26, 2024
Use-Cases of Resilient Nuclear Crisis Communications: A View from Russia

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Use-Cases of Resilient Nuclear Crisis Communications: A View from Russia

This report delves into resilient nuclear crisis communications from the Russian perspective, examines several documents and actions taken by Russia political leadership on both nuclear and non-nuclear instances of crisis communications, and concludes by stressing the importance of cooperation between leaders in Moscow and Washington:
nuclear crisis communications, nuclear risk reduction, Russia
June 26, 2024
Pakistan: Mitigating Nuclear Risks Through Crisis Communications

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Pakistan: Mitigating Nuclear Risks Through Crisis Communications

This brief explores the history of crisis communications from the perspective of Pakistan, unpacks the history of nuclear crisis communications between Pakistan and India, and calls for a multilateral crisis communication mechanism in South Asia to enhance regional stability and security, noting the necessity for neutral party engagement.
nuclear crisis communications, nuclear risk reduction, Pakistan, South Asia
June 26, 2024
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