National Security

Over the past three years, companies from the West have acted to provide cyber defense assistance to Ukraine. What are the lessons learned?

Explore key takeaways from the 2024 Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition.

At the 2024 NATO Youth Summit, experts discussed the geopolitical implications of climate change as a threat multiplier, and NATO’s efforts in environmental security.

Following President Biden’s landmark Executive Order, leaders broke down how Generative AI will impact cybersecurity today and in the future.

Guidelines for how organizations can equip their information security teams to handle both the evolving threat landscape and their broader corporate responsibilities.

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 — Each of us has the ability to improve our own cybersecurity, protect our own data and privacy and, by extension, our national and economic security. craig newmark philanthropies and Aspen Digital will highlight the one-year anniversary of Craig Newmark’s launch of the Cyber Civil Defense (CCD) initiative, a broad coalition of organizations dedicated to educating and protecting Americans amid escalating cybersecurity threats.

MARCH 15, 2023 – A discussion of the “all-tools” approach to disrupting digital threats, and how the U.S. government uses investment strategy, trade policy, prosecutions, and export controls to address threats to national security.

Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment, and unique in that a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country. Leaders will draw lessons from this conflict for years, but one is already clear: the ability to deliver cyber defense assistance must be a key national security capability.

U.S. leadership in space is at a critical juncture. Commercial, civil, and military stakeholders need to take a whole-of-nation approach to handle the increased competition in space, according to a study by MITRE and the Aspen Institute.

We need the right policies to meet the energy needs of today without derailing our climate goals for the future.