The SHLB Coalition advocates for policies and programs that enable anchor institutions to obtain and promote open, secure, high-quality broadband services to support connectivity and opportunity for a...

The SHLB Coalition advocates for policies and programs that enable anchor institutions to obtain and promote open, secure, high-quality broadband services to support connectivity and opportunity for a...

Presidents Trump and Xi wrapped their two-day summit in Washington without a formal AI agreement. But before the two leaders sat down, U.S. officials announced plans for an incident line on AI risk. F...

This paper examines what rigorous, quantitative risk modeling for advanced AI should look like in practice — reviewing five research traditions, comparing two leading approaches, and drawing on a 22-e...

Philip Reiner, CEO of the Institute for Security and Technology, joins Ankit to discuss how AI could reshape nuclear command and control across all nine...

President Donald Trump said the AI Force would be analogous with the Space Force, a military service branch created during his first term to protect U.S. space interests.

In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons.

As organizations rush to adopt AI, most are flying blind, with limited visibility into the models, data, software, and services powering their systems. This session makes the case for AI Bills of Mate...

While schools across the country have become a popular target for malicious actors, they still lack the cybersecurity resources to defend themselves. In this webinar, IST brought together members of t...

Critical infrastructure was already vulnerable.

Outdated networks face growing cyber threats as AI makes it easier for adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities and launch disruptive attacks.

IST unites technology and policy leaders to create actionable solutions to emerging security challenges. Join us.

Nearly half of respondents in the survey released Wednesday serve or have served in the Defense Department, an agency locked in fierce discourse over military use of AI systems.

It's hard to erect biosecurity guardrails when you don't know how some AI systems will act.

Following a week in the Bay Area with the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Accelerator, IST Senior Associate for Nuclear Policy Catherine Murphy stresses the urgent need to build sha...

In July, IST convened the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Accelerator in the Bay Area for a five-day immersive experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence and nuclear ...

Three months after IST’s Michael Klein coordinated state leadership in response to the Canvas breach, Klein reflects on navigating a situation which, due to the lack of federal capacity and authority,...

“Securing critical infrastructure is not one person’s job. You bring multiple people, multiple teams with different expertise to come together.” – Adam Robbie

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As AI’s role in U.S. national security operations increases, what are the risks? What are the opportunities? What red lines need to be drawn? The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), with su...

IST is convening the Fragile Foundations Sprint, developed by Joshua Corman and led and coordinated by Jen Ellis and David Batz, to lay the groundwork for pragmatic guidance and future action to stren...

The Presidential Memorandum on “Expanding Capabilities To Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime”, issued on August 12, addresses how the government intends to increase private sector engagement in ...

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

In Mexico City today, the 40+ members of the México Ransomware Task Force endorsed a set of actionable recommendations for the Mexican multistakeholder community to combat the threat of ransomware.

The Mexico RTF recommends a public-private effort to disrupt criminal infrastructure and create a national repository of resources for use in ransomware attacks

Cyber attacks against infrastructure are on the rise. Just how vulnerable are we to hacking?

The Institute for Security and Technology announces a new research initiative in partnership with the Future of Life Institute to establish governance frameworks and control mechanisms for AI systems ...

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Three recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic models, including one where a Claude agent engaged in social engineering during UK AISI-permitted cyber testing, map to Level 2 on IST's Loss of C...

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

You don’t have to be a “prepper” to engage in some basic emergency preparedness.

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Presented by ICS Village in partnership with IST’s UnDisruptable27 project and Akin, Critical Effect DC ‘26 brought together leaders across operational technology, industrial control systems, national...

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An alert from the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency warned that “malicious cyber actors” have been remotely tampering with water systems.

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