Cybersecurity News and Insights

“Lisa Monaco, former Homeland Security adviser to President Obama told John Berman that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is likely going to look at whether President Trump was trying to get peoples’ stories in line.”

“Lisa O. Monaco, a senior fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center on Law and Security, was homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. John P. Carlin, chair of the law firm Morrison & Foerster’s global risk and crisis management group and the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity & […]

“What is fair? It seems a simple question, but it’s one without simple answers. That’s particularly true in the arcane world of artificial intelligence (AI), where the notion of smart, emotionless machines making decisions wonderfully free of bias is fading fast. Perhaps the most public taint of that perception came with a 2016 ProPublica investigation that concluded […]

“In the many discussions of President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, it is commonly assumed that if the president fired Comey for the purpose of interfering with the investigation into Russian electoral interference, then the president is guilty of obstructing justice. We find the president’s conduct deeply troubling and corrosive […]

“Broadcom Ltd. knocked more than $4 billion off its bid to acquire Qualcomm Inc., firing back a day after Qualcomm sweetened its own offer to acquire NXP Semiconductors NV by billions of dollars—a move Broadcom staunchly opposed.”

“We need to be imposing costs for the Russians’ malicious activity and attempt to undermine our democracy”—Senior Fellow Lisa Monaco on Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in the 2016 US election.”

“YOU DON’T READ privacy policies. And of course, that’s because they’re not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers’ diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers—the lawyers […]

“Graduate-level classes this semester at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland, among other places, illustrate the fascination with the technology across several academic fields, and the assumption that it will outlast the current speculative price bubble. “There was some gentle ribbing from my colleagues when I began […]

“A discussion of cybersecurity breaches was on the menu at the annual Law Alumni Association (LAA) luncheon, with experts from the legal, private equity, and technology industries offering perspectives on key issues in a ransomware attack.”

Lisa Monaco, former Obama homeland security advisor and fellow at The Center on Law and Security, discusses the FBI and Special Counsel investigation.