Cybersecurity

CSET Research Analyst Dakota Cary discusses China's new Data Security Law and the effects of its cyber vulnerability disclosure provisions to hack other countries.

Separating AI cybersecurity hype from reality

Bank Automation News
| August 20, 2021

In Bank Automation New's latest podcast CSET's Micah Musser breaks down how AI and ML can heighten and hinder security, and how financial institutions can separate marketing fiction from cybersecurity reality.

Drawing from his research, Andrew Lohn discusses GPT-3's ability to create disinformation at the 2021 Black Hat conference.

Chinese Cyberthreats: The Impact on National Security

Gov Info Security
| August 5, 2021

In her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CSET Senior Fellow Anna Puglisi discussing U.S. implications if China loses its "technological edge" to China.

In their Black Hat Talk, CSET's Andrew Lohn and Micah Musser discuss their research using GPT-3 and its ability to create disinformation from their publication "Truth, Lies, and Automation."

CSET's Dakota Cary describes China's plans to becomes a "cyber powerhouse" through the creation of its National Cybersecurity Center.

Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn discusses the threats and vulnerabilities AI systems, especially the Pentagon's, are susceptible to in his recent CSET report Poison in the Well

What can the U.S. do to prevent cyberattacks from China?

Marketplace Public Radio
| July 19, 2021

CSET Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn weighs in on the latest Microsoft cyberattack.

Microsoft Print Spooler, Kesaya ransomware mega-hack

Security Conversations
| July 6, 2021

Featured in Security Conversation's newsletter, Micah Musser's report "Machine Learning and Cybersecurity" is well worth the read.

National Cybersecurity Center Map

Dakota Cary and Jennifer Melot
| July 2021

China wants to be a “cyber powerhouse” (网络强国). At the heart of this mission is the sprawling 40 km2 campus of the National Cybersecurity Center. Formally called the National Cybersecurity Talent and Innovation Base (国家网络安全人才与创新基地), the NCC is being built in Wuhan. The campus, which China began constructing in 2017 and is still building, includes seven centers for research, talent cultivation, and entrepreneurship; two government-focused laboratories; and a National Cybersecurity School.