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Vietnam’s Starlink Pilot and Digital Sovereignty in Southeast Asia

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Vietnam’s Starlink pilot reflects a new regulatory template for governing foreign-controlled endpoints, one that accepts the new geopolitical reality that AI compute facilities, cloud infrastructures, and data centers are assets of strategic concern to states.

The Norm That Protects Scammers: ASEAN’s Non-Interference in the Mekong

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The ‘ASEAN Way’ is curtailing the ability of states to collectively crack down on Illicit scam centers operating in plain sight in Southeast Asia.

Operating in the Gulf Now Means Operating in Geopolitics

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The Iran war has pushed the Gulf into a different category of risk, one in which commercial exposure can no longer be cleanly separated from geopolitical conflict.

Distributed Risk: Open-Source Software as Strategic Infrastructure

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The 2024 XZ incident illustrates how open-source software (OSS) has become strategic infrastructure in the global economy, opening up new strategic vulnerabilities and new pathways to geopolitical leverage.

The Geoeconomic Angle of the Third Gulf War

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In the heartland of ancient Persia, the lines in the sand of West Asia’s geoeconomic map are being redrawn.

Life After Mencho: A Shifting Landscape of Organized Crime in Mexico

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The assassination of New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) leader ‘el Mencho’ is a game-changer, but not necessarily in the way that some analysts were hoping.

Russia’s Cyber Sanctuary in Transition: Implications for Global Cybercrime

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Russia’s recent cybercrime enforcement activity is best understood not as a conventional law enforcement campaign, but as a geopolitical signal with second-order security effects.

Saving Billions, Cynically: A Very Special Military Operation

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Russia’s mass deployment of incarcerated prisoners to the frontlines of Ukraine makes for good economics if not ethics. But don’t expect it to catch on in Western Europe, at least for now.

UN Cybercrime Pact Hopes to Curb Rise of Transnational Criminal Networks

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State leaders hope that the weekend signing of the United Nations Convention on Cybercrime in Hanoi will mark a step toward reversing the growth of transnational cybercrime networks, many of which operate with impunity just across the Mekong. But as always with global treaties, the devil will be in the details.

Hybrid Warfare in NYC? Takeaways from the UN SIM Network

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The discovery of a cache of malicious networking equipment in New York City over the weekend could represent a significant development in the ongoing evolution of hybrid warfare.

Bridging Digital Divides: India’s Cybersecurity Gaps and the Case for US-India Cooperation

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For India and the United States, the choice is clear: innovate, cooperate, or fall behind in a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape.

Fragmenting the Internet: The Geopolitics of Data Sovereignty

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Strategic data sovereignty regulations are fragmenting the global digital ecosystem, producing real consequences for the future of international trade, particularly in geopolitically sensitive industries like AI and other emerging technologies.

US GENIUS Act: Crypto Inches toward the Mainstream

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The GENIUS Act reshapes stablecoin regulation by creating a clear, federally regulated environment that balances innovation and risk management, unlocking broader crypto use in the corporate sector, and exposing risks investors must understand.

Taiwan and South Korea: Bridging the Cybersecurity Gap

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Facing a shared risk from cyberattacks in ever increasing numbers and sophistication, a golden opportunity exists for Taiwan and South Korea to come together and cooperate on cybersecurity.

Typhoon Watch: China Cyber Espionage Comes of Age

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This report examines how China cyber espionage has been evolving over the past decade, from the critical infrastructure risk of Volt Typhoon to the more recent Salt Typhoon, described as the ‘worst telecom hack in US history.’

AI’s Role in Countering Iranian Attacks on Aerospace Systems

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The threat of attack on government and commercial satellite systems is mounting amid the Israel-Hamas War, but risks can be mitigated if operators abide by best practices.

Exploring Cyber-Darkness: How Moscow Undermines the West via the Dark Web

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As Russia's cyberwarfare operations increasingly integrate peripheral and core actors, they form a functional symbiosis that enhances both scale and technical expertise. An effective defense demands a response as dynamic and multifaceted as the threat itself.

Ukraine’s ‘IT Army’ Has Lessons for Taiwan

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As Taiwan prepares for a potential conflict with China, it must take all necessary steps to prepare itself not only for the physical battlefield but the digital one as well. Here, the experience of Ukraine’s ‘IT Army’ can help.

CYBERCOM: Canada’s CAF Gets Serious About Cyber Defense

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Canadian Armed Forces members teamed up with U.S. Airmen to work together with allies, partners and five U.S. service branches on the multinational space operations team in support of Valiant Shield 2024 (VS24), June 10, 2024, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Throughout Exercise VS24, U.S. Space Command will plan, execute, and integrate military space power into multi-domain operations. Exercises such as VS24 provide Indo-Pacific Command Joint Forces an opportunity to integrate with allies and partners to conduct precise, multi-axis, multi-domain effects that demonstrate the strength and versatility of the Joint Force., https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/US-Space-Forces-Indo-Pacific-News/Article/3806910/canada-joins-multinational-team-for-valiant-shield-24/

With the establishment of the Canadian Armed Forces Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), Canada joins eleven other global militaries with a cyber-based command.

Cambodia Emerges as Transnational Crime Hub

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Trans-national criminal networks are becoming entrenched in Cambodia, posing new trafficking, fraud, and governance threats throughout the region and even globally.

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