Cybersecurity

To strengthen U.S. cybersecurity leadership and effectively counter cyber threats, the administration should enhance interagency coordination with a central cybercrime database, collaborate with the private sector to address cybersecurity gaps in critical infrastructure, standardize data breach reporting, and build international coalitions for global cyber norms.

Thailand’s emerging digital markets are driven by innovation, growth, and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Hastily adopting the PEA as proposed risks introducing unnecessary regulatory burdens, fostering regulatory capture, and stifling innovation without clear evidence of market failure.

Policymakers in South Korea are weighing a raft of digital market provisions inspired by the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Their goal is to rein in allegedly anticompetitive practices by Big Tech firms. But the proposed interventions are unwarranted and risk harming innovation, straining relations with the United States during uncertain times, and opening the door to China.

Daniel Castro speaks at a webinar on the national and international policies shaping data management and use hosted by EMPOWER, a research programme sponsored by Science Foundation Ireland.

Daniel Castro presents on the impact of AI on cybersecurity at an event hosted by Dar America in Casablanca.

Daniel Castro speaks about how to address cybersecurity risks from AI at a talk hosted by the School of Information Sciences (ESI) in Rabat, Morocco.

Digital identity should play a key role in shaping the governance structures in immersive technologies and NIST is well placed to lead this charge.

A combination of privacy-protective age verification systems utilizing digital forms of identification and AI, parental controls that are readily available and easy to use, and greater transparency from digital platforms would increase children’s safety and privacy, encourage innovation in improved safety and privacy controls, and better inform policymakers and parents on next steps to protect children.

Financial regulatory agencies should address threats from AI voice clones by updating security guidelines to ban financial institutions from relying solely on voice authentication to protect customers’ accounts.

Congress should pass the AI Incident Reporting and Security Enhancement Act to standardize the tracking of incidents from AI systems and monitor AI-specific vulnerabilities, which are not the same as cybersecurity vulnerabilities.