The 2018 Annual Report highlights many of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s achievements from the year 2018, a year that saw the launch of Citizen Clinic, the world’s first public-interest cybersecurity clinic, as well as a year-long collaboration with the World Economic Forum focused on the future of cybersecurity.
Authored by Jessica Cussins Newman, Research Fellow with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), this paper “Toward AI Security: Global Aspirations for a More Resilient Future,” introduces a new framework for global artificial intelligence (AI) security alongisde an analysis of government strategies from around the world, including the US, China, France, and India. The report highlights significant divergences between government approaches to the security implications of AI, but also identifies numerous synergies that can be leveraged to support global coordination.
Produced through a collaboration between the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), CNA’s Institute for Public Research (CNA), and the World Economic Forum’s Global Centre for Cybersecurity (C4C), this report includes a set of four scenarios depicting possible futures that could result from the rise of artificial intelligence, ubiquitous sensors, quantum computing, divergent internet regulations, and other trends. The project team convened a series of workshops in seven international cities to engage experts and decision-makers in dialogue about the challenges and opportunities the scenarios depict. The report provides an overview of key findings, as well as the full scenarios themselves.
Authored by Sean Brooks, Research Fellow with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), this paper “Defending Politically Vulnerable Organizations Online,” provides an overview of cybersecurity threats to civil society organizations targeted for political purposes, and explores the ecosystem of resources available to help these organizations improve their cybersecurity. The report details how media outlets, human rights groups, NGOs, and other politically vulnerable organizations face significant cybersecurity threats—often at the hands of powerful governments— but have limited resources to protect themselves.
This report was published by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity in partnership with researchers from the Internet of Things Privacy Forum. The report provides an overview of some of the key privacy issues resulting from the expansion of the IoT, as well as emerging frameworks that could help policymakers and corporate leaders reduce potential harms through regulation and product design.
Authored by researchers from American University and published by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, this report details findings from a novel experiment that assessed how diverse actors—including nation-states, non-state organizations like ISIS, cyber-activist groups such as Wikileaks, and other groups—are likely to use cyber operations in the context of an escalating conflict.
The 2017 Annual Report highlights different areas of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s operations from 2017, including our research and thought leadership, education, collaboration and strategic communication, and continuing organizational development.
Authored by Jonathan Reiber, Visiting Scholar at CLTC and former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Arun Mohan Sukumar, head of the Technology, Society, and Security Program at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, the study focuses on how technological growth could place populations at risk in cyberspace, and explores the nexus of nationalism and cyberspace operations in one of the world’s most dynamic economic regions.
The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) has released a report focused on the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity in sports, with an emphasis on the Olympic Games. The report, “The Cybersecurity of Olympic Sports: New Opportunities, New Risks,” is an unprecedented look into how the proliferation of new…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s 2016 Annual Report provides an overview of the Center’s progress and achievements from 2016, as well as our goals for the future. The report is organized around key areas of focus that shaped CLTC’s activities throughout the year, including organizational development, research and thought leadership, education, collaboration and strategic communication, and fundraising.
CLTC produced a white paper detailing the concept for a “Cyber Workforce Incubator” that would enable top technologists from Silicon Valley to work for the federal government for one- or two-year terms. Through this program, technology professionals would receive fast-tracked security clearances, and would be able to work for the Department of Defense and other agencies while remaining on the West Coast, where they can remain tapped in to the culture and innovations of the tech industry.
Download the House Committee Testimony Senior Advisor Jesse Goldhammer, Faculty Director Steve Weber, and Executive Director Betsy Cooper submitted written testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Information Technology (part of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform), in which they expressed the need for the Cyber Workforce…
This report was published to help the Trump Administration prepare to tackle the complex challenge of cybersecurity. Authored by CLTC’s Steve Weber, Faculty Director, and Betsy Cooper, Executive Director, the report outlines recommendations for a cybersecurity agenda for the first 10, 100, and 1000 days of the next administration.
CLTC’s 2015 Annual Report chronicles the wide array of activities undertaken during the Center’s first year. The report reviews the Center’s accomplishments and defines the impacts, obstacles, and risks that remain in goal remains to achieve a UC Berkeley ‘School of Thought’ around long-term cybersecurity.
“The Chamonix Manifesto: Transatlantic dialog on the impact of the rise of global intermediation platforms” was written by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Steve Weber, Betsy Cooper, and Jesse Goldhammer, along with Frédérick Douzet, Chair of Cyberstrategy at Paris 8, and Stéphane Grumbach, Senior Scientist at INRIA. The purpose is to clarify key issues surrounding intermediation platforms, digital services that directly connect consumers and service providers, and that have sparked controversy—particularly in Europe—as a threat to the “digital sovereignty” of governments.
This brochure provides an overview of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, with short descriptions of our research, education, and engagement missions. It also includes brief summaries of our Cybersecurity Futures 2020 scenarios.
“Cybersecurity Futures 2020″ is a set of five scenarios released by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity on April 28, 2016. The purpose of the scenarios, which focus on emerging areas like biosensed data, data markets, predictive algorithms, and other domains, is to help identify emerging areas of interest for researchers at UC Berkeley and beyond.
This brochure provides a summary of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s “Cybersecurity Futures 2020” report, which outlines five narratives for the year 2020.