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Senior Fellow Dr. David Kay is a weapons nonproliferation expert and former head of the Iraq Survey Group. In comments to WTOP radio on the crisis in Syria, he explained how sarin gas could be deployed as a weapon. Recent reports indicate that the Syrian regime might be planning a gas attack on opposition forces and civilians, but WTOP reports that some within Syria are skeptical. Click here to read and listen to WTOP coverage.
Senior Vice President of National Security Policy Jamie Barnett, Jr., RDML USNR (Ret.), is a retired Navy admiral and cyber security analyst, and former Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. In comments to Federal Computer Week, he joined other experts in a year-end assessment of the top developments in cyber security for 2012. Click here to read the article in full.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies CEO and Chairman Mike Swetnam is co-editor of the new Potomac Institute Press book, #CyberDoc: No Borders—No Boundaries, which explores the national cyber security risk facing the US. (Click here for preordering information on Amazon.) In a live interview on Federal News Radio, he talked about the new book and the difference between cyber doctrine and the cyber policy that flows from it. Click the player below to listen to the interview in full.
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The Potomac Institute Press launched the new book #CyberDoc: No Borders - No Boundaries, at a special conference entitled A National Cyber Doctrine: The Time Is Now, on December 4 at the National Press Club. The book is co-edited by Potomac Institute CEO and Chairman Michael Swetnam and by Timothy Sample, Vice President and Sector Manager for Battelle Memorial Institute’s Special Programs Organization, and it addresses the urgent need for a national cyber doctrine to guide the US in this challenging new security environment. Click here to read coverage of the event on the CIO news website. #CyberDoc is available for purchase on Amazon.com; click here for the Amazon listing.
Senior Vice President of National Security Policy Jamie Barnett, Jr., RDML USNR (Ret.), is a retired Navy admiral and cyber security analyst, and former Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. In an interview on Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg West show, he talked about the role of cyber attacks in the recent Gaza conflict. RDML Barnett says such attacks are likely to become a permanent fixture of warfare in a world where "1s and 0s" can now be used as weapons. Click below to watch the interview in full.