Research Library

Since 2015, CLTC has directly funded more than 160 projects by UC Berkeley students, faculty & affiliates on original cybersecurity research topics, in addition to developing our own white papers, publications, blogs, policy analysis and recommendations, and open-source curricula and toolkits.

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November 4, 2025	Blog Post	AI Risk is Investment Risk By: Oumou Ly Investors, shareholders, and corporate boards who engage in AI oversight will gain earlier visibility into systemic exposures, sharpen their ability to price emerging risks, and set the standards…
October 30, 2025	White Paper	Securing Mutual Aid: Cybersecurity Practices and Design Principles for Financial Technology By: Elijah Baucom, Anna Lanzino, Yvette Vargas, Nicholas Perematko Mutual aid organizations, such as food banks, disaster relief, direct cash assistance, and bail funds, serve as critical community pillars, yet their efforts are increasingly under threat in…	civil cyber defense cyber civil defense digital harms governance infrastructure multifactor authentication passwords public interest cybersecurity usable security
October 1, 2025	White Paper	Enhancing Cyber Resilience for Equitable Healthcare: Analysis of Cyberattacks Targeting Sexual and Reproductive Facilities and Services By: Pavlina Pavlova Healthcare is among the most targeted and vulnerable sectors for cyberattacks. Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) facilities and services in particular face financially motivated ransomware attacks and data…	civil cyber defense cyber civil defense digital harms governance healthcare hospitals human rights misinformation multifactor authentication public interest cybersecurity usable security
September 19, 2025	White Paper	Building Trust: Quantifying Use of the .gov Domain Below the Federal Level By: Chris Babcock Trust in digital government services relies on users’ ability to verify that websites and emails genuinely represent official institutions. The .gov top-level domain (TLD), managed by the Cybersecurity…	civil cyber defense cyber civil defense digital harms elections governance NIST policy public interest cybersecurity
August 6, 2025	White Paper	A Path to Long-Term Cyber Resilience for Under-Resourced Organizations By: Michael Razeeq Across the United States, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments (“SLTTs”), small- and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”), and nonprofits are frequently targeted in cyber attacks, leading to significant financial…	cyber civil defense digital harms governance infrastructure national security public interest cybersecurity water
August 4, 2025	White Paper	Economics of Cyber Policies for Critical Care By: Aden Klein Cyberattacks are a pressing threat to hospital operations, patient health data, and, most importantly, patient lives. Cybersecurity insurance has become a key component of resilience for the…	cyber civil defense digital harms healthcare hospitals infrastructure insurance policy
June 17, 2025	White Paper	The Roadmap to Community Cyber Defense: A Path Forward from the Cyber Resilience Corps By: Sarah Powazek, Grace Menna Community organizations — including nonprofits, hospitals, schools, local utilities, city governments, and small businesses — deliver vital services to the public, but they are often the least prepared to…	civil cyber defense public interest cybersecurity
May 13, 2025	Blog Post	Reflections on Cybersecurity Futures 2025: Looking Back from the Present By: Nick Merrill, Steven Weber In this article, Nick Merrill and Steve Weber conduct a “postmortem” analysis of the Cybersecurity Futures 2025 scenarios, which were written in 2020. The authors look at what they got right — and wrong — and what it means for our understanding of changes and trends in technology and digital security.	artificial intelligence (AI)data economy deep fake digital harms globalization governance infrastructure internet fragmentation misinformation privacy quantum scenarios surveillance synthetic media (deepfakes)
May 12, 2025	Blog Post	Slashing EPA funding may have downstream cybersecurity impacts on an already vulnerable water sector By: Shannon Pierson America’s water and wastewater utilities rely on the Environmental Protection Agency for cybersecurity support and guidance. With the EPA’s funding on the Trump Administration’s chopping block, America’s water…	digital harms homeland security infrastructure national security public interest cybersecurity
May 8, 2025	White Paper	Survey of Search Engine Safeguards and their Applicability for AI By: Evan R. Murphy, Nada Madkour, Deepika Raman, Krystal Jackson, Jessica Newman, Survey of Search Engine Safeguards and their Applicability for AI A new research paper from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity examines how safeguards designed for search engines could be adopted by developers of AI systems like ChatGPT. The…	artificial intelligence (AI)data sharing digital harms engineering homeland security machine learning (ML)misinformation national security