The Honorable Melissa Hathaway, member of the Potomac Institute Board of Regents, Senior Fellow, and member of the Cyber Readiness Index team recently published an article entitled “Ambition vs. Progress: The National Cyber Security Agenda of the Netherlands” in Cyber Security Raad. The article comes one year after the release of the “Netherlands Cyber Readiness at a Glance” country profile released in September of 2017 and assesses developments in the Netherlands’ approach to cybersecurity policy since it released the National Cybersecurity Agenda: A Cybersecure Netherlands (NCSA) in April of 2018.
Past Events
ICTS Seminar - The Refugee Crisis: Humanitarian and Security Implications March 9, 2016
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
March 9, 2016
The latest expansion of terrorism, civil wars, and regional conflicts has resulted in internal displacements and forced migrations of millions of refugees around the world. Despite the grave humanitarian and strategic implications of the continuing...
ICTS Seminar - Combating Terrorism: The Role of Sharing Intelligence - April 14, 2016
International Center for Terrorism Studies, at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
In the wake of the escalated terrorist plots and attacks worldwide as well as the April 2016 Nuclear Security Summit’s warning that “the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism remains one of the gre...
Combating Terrorism: Lessons from the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, and Beyond
Since 9/11, security challenges with grave global implications have emerged in the Middle East, Africa, and other regions. Terrorists networks, particularly al-Qa’ida and the newly-formed Daesh, are expanding their deadly operations across an arc of instability that exists without borders.
In the...
"International Cooperation in Combating Terrorism: Review of 2015 and Outlook for 2016"
Date: Monday, February 8, 2016
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Place: The National Press Club
529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Holeman Lounge Washington, D.C. 20045
Opening Remarks:
Michael S. Swetnam
CEO and Chairman, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
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Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 2 of 2)
The Launch of: "The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0: A Baseline and an Index"
Today, no country is cyber ready. The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 examines one hundred twenty-five countries that have embraced, or are starting to embrace, information communications technologies and the Internet and then applie...
Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 Launch (Part 1 of 2)
The Launch of: "The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0: A Baseline and an Index"
Today, no country is cyber ready. The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 examines one hundred twenty-five countries that have embraced, or are starting to embrace, information communications technologies and the Internet and then applie...