Author: Julia Solomon-Strauss (Julia Solomon-Strauss)

President Trump wants to crack down on botnets, the networks of hacked zombie computers that criminals or adversaries can use to carry out large-scale cyberattacks. Achieving this would surely disrupt the cybercriminal infrastructure, but it will also require that the administration overcome monumental technical and political hurdles. Zachary K. Goldman comments in the MIT Technology...

Russia’s successful incursion into the 2016 presidential election has opened a new, menacing phase in cyberwarfare and is a harbinger of attacks to come, says President Barack Obama’s former top counterterrorism adviser, Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco.

Lisa Monaco, the former homeland security adviser to President Obama, talks with David Axelrod about what she thinks are the greatest threats facing America today, why the Trump administration’s travel ban hurts our counterterrorism efforts, and why she believes Russia’s incursion into our election has opened a new phase in cyberwarfare.

NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the national security and foreign policy challenges facing the White House on CNN.

NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the future of national security in the Trump administration with CNN’s Jim Sciutto. As President Obama’s former top counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, Monaco coordinated policy development and crisis response to terrorist attacks, cyberincidents, and public health emergencies and natural disasters.

It’s a question that still rankles many a Clinton loyalist: Why didn’t the Obama administration do more to sound the alarm over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign? Few former officials have explained it, but in a new interview for The Global POLITICO, Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, describes...

NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco appeared on The Global Politico, a weekly podcast about the world in the Trump era. In addition to her experiences with counterterrorism, she discussed how the Obama White House handled the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections–the first extensive comments by someone in the room at...

NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman comments on the encryption debate in light of the most recent attacks in London: While there is “an undeniable governmental need for these messages,” the question is really whether companies should be forced to build a product that allows the government to access data…Any action on this...

NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman discusses the significance and consequences of the recent indictment of the Russians behind the Yahoo hacks. “This indictment is part of a broader sustained effort on the part of the US government to deter Russia from committing cyberattacks by prosecuting Russian cybercriminals, imposing sanctions, and taking other...

Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco is featured on the Cybersecurity Podcast from Passcode, commenting on the future of cybersecurity in the new Presidential administration.