Four Takeaways From the New UK Cybersecurity Strategy (Alex Grigsby, Council on Foreign Relations)

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/11/14/four-takeaways-from-the-new-uk-cybersecurity-strategy/

Disclosure of DNC Emails: Was Russia Making Up for the Fact It Got Caught? (Alex Grigsby, CFR)

Identifying the responsible party for a cyber incident is always a challenge. However, evidence has been piling up over the last few months that Russian intelligence services, and Russian military intelligence (GRU) in particular, is behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) network and the email disclosures.

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/07/25/disclosure-of-dnc-emails-hack-was-russia-making-the-best-of-a-bad-situation/

(TOPICS - The Global Eye) OSCE Agrees to New Confidence Building Measures. Pop the Champagne? (Alex Grigsby, CFR)

Three weeks ago, the members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed to a second series of cyber-related confidence building measures (CBMs). The OSCE includes rivals like Russia, the United States, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, and Greece, so reducing the risk of escalatory cyber activity between them is positive. However, a critical look at the new CBMs reveals that only one of them is actually going to work towards that goal.

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The 2015 GGE Report: Breaking New Ground, Ever So Slowly (Council on Foreign Relations)

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2015/09/08/the-2015-gge-report-breaking-new-ground-ever-so-slowly/