BRisk Assessment
Short-form analysis from the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab
Berkeley as a Home for Security Research
The case for national security research inside a leading innovation ecosystem.
Leah Walker
Brisk Assessment
3.19.2026
Making sense of hypersonic performance through open-source modelling.
Cameron Tracy
Brisk Assessment
3.10.2026
The National Interest, Narrowed
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy codifies a more limited, transactional vision of U.S. power.
Andrew Reddie
Brisk Assessment
2.5.2026
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the business of cybercrime.
Gil Baram, Leah Walker
Brisk Assessment
10.22.2025
Building an AI Red Teaming Discipline
As commercial artificial intelligence models have become increasingly sophisticated, we need to build a discipline around red teaming tools, protocols, and red teamers themselves.
Leah Walker, Jake Hecla, Cara Marie Wagner, Andrew Reddie
Brisk Assessment
09.03.2025
Introducing Brisk Assessments
A new publication format from the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab
Brisk Assessment
09.03.2025