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Law Enforcement Online: Innovative Doesn’t Mean Illegal

Judith H. Germano Criminal actors have an increasing ability to commit serious crimes remotely via computers, while concealing their identity and location through the use of various means, including Tor hidden service protocols. To effectively identify and apprehend these criminals, law enforcement must be nimble and technologically savvy, and must employ regularly updated investigative tools.

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Differing outlooks impede Sino-US cooperation to enhance cybersecurity

Zachary K. Goldman and Jerome A. Cohen China and the US both talk about “cybersecurity”, but mean different things. In Washington, cybersecurity is fundamentally about preventing unauthorised access to digital systems and, notwithstanding massive foreign hacking of US government databases, mainly focuses on protecting private-sector data  as well as critical infrastructure.

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From the War Room to the Board Room? Effectively Managing Cyber Risk without Joining the Front Lines

Randal Milch and Zachary K. Goldman Corporations seeking to manage the asymmetric cyber threat environment face a range of pressures. T e current unstable legal landscape makes management’s day-to-day approach to the persistent and mounting challenge all the more difficult. Companies face an increase in activity by the plaintiffs’ bar and inconsistent regulatory attention by...

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One More Reason for Companies to Report Data Breaches

Judith H. Germano Do companies and their legal advisors trust the government enough to reach out for help in the event of a breach, and do they perceive sufficient benefits from doing so? One major stumbling block in that assessment is the dichotomous role of government toward corporate data breach victims on the cybersecurity stage: that...

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Sanctioning Cyber Crime: The New Face of Deterrence

Zachary K. Goldman Deterrence is fundamentally about manipulating an adversary’s cost/benefit calculations to dissuade him from doing something you want to prevent. Over the last several years, strategists have struggled to adapt venerable Cold War concepts like deterrence to the information age. But deterring financially-motivated cyber criminals—the kinds of people that attacked Target, Anthem Health,...