Our Mission
The Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization that develops, advances, and promotes best practices and educational opportunities among cybersecurity professionals. The Center provides a forum for thought leadership for the benefit of those in the industry including members of civil society and government entities in the area of cybersecurity and related technology policy. The Center seeks to leverage the experience of leaders in the field to ensure a robust marketplace for cybersecurity technologies that will encourage professionals, companies, and groups of all sizes to take steps to improve their cybersecurity practices.
Latest Insights
Beyond Buzzwords: What Public Views on Scanning and Encryption Mean for Policymakers
Public support for content scanning and encryption backdoors drops when tradeoffs are made clear. This survey of Nordic countries shows people prioritize privacy and security over harm detection, and lack trust in institutions to govern access.
Deepfakes, Deception, and the Next Phase of Digital Fraud: What Policymakers Need to Know
The Better Identity Coalition (BIC) partnered with the Congressional Stop Scams Caucus to brief House staff on how generative AI and deepfakes are reshaping the fraud ecosystem and how traditional tools are not enough.
Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law to the European Commission: Proposed Measures on Search Data Sharing Raise Security Concerns
The Center for Cybersecurity Policy & Law issued comments in response to DMA.100209 – Alphabet – Article 6(11) -- warning of the security and privacy risks of proposed data sharing requirements.
Protecting Good-Faith Security Research: Building Legal Certainty Through NIS 2
Protect critical infrastructure or protect yourself. That is the untenable choice good-faith security researchers face. In much of Europe and beyond, laws still fail to clearly distinguish legitimate security research from malicious hacking.
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