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