Observing the Unobservable: Wargaming Cyber Deterrence
A study leveraging a new experimental wargame to solve challenges faced by nuclear deterrence analysts.
Topic
Cybersecurity
Results
20 publications
Berkeley as a Home for Security Research
The case for national security research inside a leading innovation ecosystem.
Building a Human-Rights–Compliant Spyware Market
This talk, cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, looks at how a multibillion-dollar spyware industry—fueled by zero-day exploits and shielded by corporate obfuscation—has outmaneuvered every law, sanction, and enforcement measure thrown at it. Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, spoke with BRSL’s Elaine Korzak, challenging the seductive simplicity of global moratoriums on the industry, and showing how they offer little more than the illusion of safety. The talk lays out a bold blueprint for a multilateral regime that can reclaim control over current and future surveillance technologies before they irreversibly erode human rights and democratic governance.
Cybercrime Gets an Upgrade
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the business of cybercrime.
Navigating Spyware Governance, Meta’s Approach to Protecting Messaging & Social Media
In this webinar, Ingrid Dickinson will cover Meta’s approach to combatting surveillance-for-hire vendors and the private sector perspective on the spyware industry. The webinar will also touch on the limitations that private sector companies face in mitigating spyware attacks and why a whole-of-society approach is needed to build appropriate governance for this market.
New UN Permanent Mechanism on Cybersecurity is Saddled with Old Controversies
How the global mechanisms indicated in the 2021-2025 open-ended working group (OEWG)'s final report fall short — and why that hampers meaningful progress within the forum dedicated to this in the UN.
Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
A round-table style discussion of Dr. Elaine Korzak’s new paper Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Dr. Korzak and BRSL Dir. Leah Walker moderated a discussion between guests James Shires, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Managing Editor of Binding Hook; Andrew J. Grotto, research scholar and co-director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; and Dr. Giacomo Persi Paoli, the Head of Programme Security and Technology at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
Cyber Wargames as Synthetic Data
A look into why war games are an increasingly important tool for generating synthetic data to study the complex issue of cyber conflict and escalation, allowing researchers to analyze how different factors influence decision-making in cyberspace despite a lack of real-world data.
Saving Face in Cyberspace: Responses to Public Cyber Intrusions in the Gulf
An analysis of how states “save face” following cyber intrusions that become public, using the strategies of diminishing, self-complimenting, and accusing.
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest
An assessment of the evolving landscape of cyber conflict.