Cybersecurity and Deterrence
Cyber Command Needs New Acquisition Authorities
Erica D. Borghard Tue, May 12, 2020, 8:00 AM
A major force program will help solve the problem.
Dr. Erica Borghard is the Senior Director and Lead, Task Force One, for the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. She came to the Commission from West Point, where she currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Army Cyber Institute. Prior to that, Erica was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, spending the 2017-2018 academic year on the Global Cyber Partnerships and Government Strategy team at JPMorgan Chase and at the Cyber National Mission Force at U.S. Cyber Command. From 2014-2017, Erica served as an Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point. Erica received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2014 from Columbia University. Erica is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, and coaches West Point’s Cyber Policy Team. The views expressed are her own.
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Cybersecurity and Deterrence
To Defend Forward, the U.S. Must Strengthen the Cyber Mission Force
Erica D. Borghard, Shawn W. Lonergan Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 8:00 AM
One of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s key recommendations is to ensure the Cyber Mission Force achieves the appropriate resourcing, force size and capability mix.
Cybersecurity
Operationalizing Defend Forward: How the Concept Works to Change Adversary Behavior
Erica D. Borghard Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 3:28 PM
Defend forward is a crucial component of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s strategic concept of layered cyber deterrence.
Cybersecurity
Ensuring the Cybersecurity and Resilience of the Defense Industrial Base
Erica D. Borghard, Shawn W. Lonergan Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 3:18 PM
Cyber-enabled intellectual property theft from the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and adversary penetration of DIB networks and systems pose an existential threat to U.S. national security.
Cybersecurity
Defend Forward as a Whole-of-Nation Effort
Erica D. Borghard, Mark Montgomery Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 4:31 PM
A review of how the Cyberspace Solarium Commission extends defend forward to encompass multiple instruments of power.
Cybersecurity
Banking on Cooperation: The U.S. Government and the Finance Industry Need to Work Together to Defend the Financial Sector from Cyber Threats
Erica D. Borghard Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 11:35 AM
The private sector—which owns and operates the vast majority of U.S. critical infrastructure in cyberspace—and the U.S. government are in lockstep that cyber threats to critical infrastructure have national-security consequences. What more, they agree that both must do more to defend critical infrastructure in cyberspace. On Sept. 20, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC that “cyber” represents the biggest threat to the global financial system.