 Views & Opinions |
Views & Opinions |
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Needed: A new cyber mindset |
We have entered a new era of cyber-enabled economic warfare, writes cyber security expert Snehal Antani, allowing "nation-states to achieve national objectives through cyberattacks with minimal risk of kinetic response (e.g. boots on the ground)." These new cyberattacks can disrupt supply chains and shut down production lines, causing billions of dollars in damage. Several problems must be addressed. |
To start with, technology vendors must be held accountable if their software or code is exploited — and the same goes for imported technology, including products from China. Antani believes legislation may be needed to ensure accountability. Artificial intelligence (AI) stands to accelerate the number, speed and effectiveness of cyberattacks. The only way to combat it is for organizations to switch to a "wartime" mindset. He writes: "This switches the focus from implanting security controls and then waiting for an attack, to 'red teaming' – probing one's own security vulnerabilities and weaknesses just as our adversaries do – and proving that an attacker cannot compromise the organization's defenses." This new era demands a shift to a "trust but verify" mindset on cybersecurity, says Antani. "My former commanding general within special operations said, 'Don't tell me we're secure, show me, then show me again tomorrow, and again next week, because our environment is constantly changing and the enemy is always evolving.' This is the way." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, June 30. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Steve Israel, former member of Congress |
Hijackings work when no one is looking. We can't ignore the once-banal functions of administering elections in remote towns and counties. It's unclear whether embedding election administration with zealots will be enough to swing a national election, but Steve Bannon's declaration should ring in the ears of anyone concerned about democracy: "We are taking over all the elections." |
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By Leor Sapir, fellow at the Manhattan Institute |
Why the U.S. has become an outlier on pediatric transgender medicine is a complicated question, but at least part of the answer is that European welfare states have centralized health bureaucracies and public health insurance. Before medicines can be approved for state funding, their evidence base needs to be evaluated. The American health care system is more vulnerable to profit motives, activist doctors and political pressures. |
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By Eugene Fidell, visiting lecturer at Yale Law School |
Lots of people who find themselves charged with criminal offenses claim they are innocent. Mostly, they mean they didn't "do it." They may claim it's all a case of mistaken identity, or they may claim an alibi (i.e., they were somewhere else at the time). But sometimes — and it's rare — the claim is that, whether or not they "did" what they are said to have done, it wasn't a crime. |
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By Elizabeth Grace Matthew, Young Voices contributor |
Family formation and wealth accumulation have always tended to push people rightward, but my millennial generation's later average age of marriage and shakier average bank accounts have long raised questions about whether this rule would hold for us. |
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