On October 15, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted an off-the-record workshop discussing whether and how the private sector might use active cyber defenses to counter the continued intrusions faced by companies.

On October 11, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) hosted a roundtable to explore the use of market-based tools to promote security culture and voluntary cyber mitigation measures in the private nuclear industry.

From Jim Wolf, Reuters:  The U.S. Cyber Command's top intelligence officer accused China on Thursday of persistent efforts to pierce Pentagon computer networks

On September 27, the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted a panel discussion on the history of all-source cyber intelligence.

Atlantic Council managing editor James Joyner published a chapter entitled "Competing Transatlantic Visions of Cybersecurity" in Cyberspace in National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World edited by Derek S. Reveron and published by Georgetown University Press.

In the Atlantic Council report "Achieving International Cyber Stability," Council Distinguished Senior Fellow Franklin D. Kramer analyzes the issues of cyber instability and emphasizes the roles of resiliency, cooperation, and transparency in achieving international cyber stability.

Jason Healey, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, published a new issue brief:  When ‘Not My Problem’ Isn’t Enough: Political Neutrality and National Responsibility in Cyber Conflict.

Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, recently had a commentary published in the latest Strategic Studies Quarterly,  the senior United States Air Force–sponsored journal for national and international security professionals.

On August 9, 2012, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations hosted a dinner conversation on “Building a Secure Cyber Future.”

These last few months have been some of the most exciting, depressing, and troubling times for those interested in the phenomenon of cyberwar.  As a cyber skeptic deeply engaged in this emerging debate I want to take a step back and analyze what we have learned.