The Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge is the only student competition devoted to high-level policy recommendations for day-after responses to a major cyber incident. The competition will take place on June 15, 2013 in Washington DC. The annual event organized by the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is the “must attend” student event in international cybersecurity policy. Applications are no longer being received. 

On May 22, the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative will hold a discussion on the history of cyber critical infrastructure protection in recognition of the 15th anniversary of Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD-63). This event will be streamed LIVE from 3:00 p.m.

After years of silence, the United States has finally had enough of Chinese cyber-theft of trade secrets. American officials have repeatedly raised the issue with their Chinese counterparts in language that is increasingly frank.

Cyber Statecraft Director Jason Healey joins In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the Council’s Cyber 9/12 Project and how to prepare various sectors for cyber catastrophes.

Though autonomous, destructive robots are a long-time, hackneyed science fiction plot, for some time, this new kind of warfare has been shifting from yesterday's movie to today's reality. But unforeseen by the imaginations of both headline and science fiction writers, it was not a missile-laden drone or humanoid Terminator that introduced this new kind of combat, but a piece of software.

The recent cyber attacks on South Korea highlight four truths of cyber conflicts as they have actually been fought. The implications of three of them are obvious, the fourth not yet so. Such conflicts are disruptive, but far from warfare. And cyber conflicts are both easier to predict than popular myth has it and the nation responsible is often perfectly obvious.

On April 12, the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) hosted the second scenario-driven, interactive conference to discuss the day-after response to a cyber incident.

On April 12, the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) will host the second scenario-driven, interactive conference to discuss the day-after response to a cyber incident. 

The Atlantic Council and Georgetown University’s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security would like to invite you to our third annual International Engagement on Cyber conference. This gathering promotes dialogue among policymakers, academics, and key industry stakeholders from across the globe, and explores the worldwide community’s increasing interconnectivity in this domain.

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey writes in US News & World Report about recent cyber attacks on South Korea.