Today’s #Cyber Strategy for America outlined six key priorities for the administration’s “cyber vision.” We asked IST experts to weigh in on what’s there and what isn’t, where they see opportunities, and what it means for #cybersecurity going forward.
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IST Chief Strategy Officer @megans.bsky.social visited Germany in February to join cybersecurity experts from around the globe at #MCSC. From digital sovereignty to the risks and opportunities of AI, she reflected on her experience for the #NatSpecs blog.
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IST Chief Strategy Officer @megans.bsky.social visited Germany in February to join national security strategies from around the globe at #MCSC. From digital sovereignty to the risks and opportunities of AI, she reflected on her experience for the #NatSpecs blog.
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CATALINK is supported by the Swedish Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Ahead of the #CATALINK Initiative's Geneva workshop, CEO Philip Reiner sat down for a virtual convo with former Google VP of Security Eric Grosse to offer background on the #nuclear #cybersecurity landscape & the need for secure, resilient leader-to-leader communications.
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#RSAC is less than a month away – is your schedule set? IST will join global #cyber leaders in San Francisco next month, as our team joins sessions tackling active defense, the congressional agenda, stopping teen hackers, and more!
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The Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator aims to seed a network of nuclear policy practitioners capable of translating AI developments into concrete policy through technical literacy & applied engagement. Apps for the inaugural cohort close tomorrow, Feb. 28 at midnight PST.
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The Trump admin's National Cyber Strategy is imminent. Will it, as rumors suggest, prioritize #cyber offense over defense to shape adversary behavior? For Claroty #Nexus, IST CSO @megans.bsky.social breaks down the history of cyber strategy & the drawbacks of an offense-first approach.
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Moltbook, a Reddit-like forum for AI agents, gained 1.5mil users before research suggested that a multi-agent environment w/o cybersecurity guardrails could be a hotbed for fraud & influence ops. IST’s Gabrielle Tran outlines what this means for the future of cyber-enabled manipulation.
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Around the country, Flock cameras have become a source of privacy concerns for parents and teachers alike. IST’s @michaelfklein.bsky.social joined the K-12 Tech Talk Podcast to weigh in on the recent controversy, impacts on schools, and how #securebydefault could be the solution.
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The Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator is a initiative designed to strengthen decision-making at the intersection of AI & nuclear policy. Mid-career practitioners across sectors are invited to join this program focused on tech literacy & applied engagement.
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IST’s Michael Klein hosted a CoSn webinar earlier this month to brief district leaders on the state of AI & #cybersecurity in ed. From AI development history to how threat actors are using it to their advantage, he walked leaders through tackling AI concerns in their districts.
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“Across these shifts, it becomes increasingly clear that U.S. compute-related export controls are becoming less about static rule-writing and more about sustained operational oversight,” they write.
IST authors Jennifer Tang and Gabrielle Tran draw from IST working group discussions to present stakeholder reactions, policy implications, and key takeaways from the last two months in AI export control.
🚨 NEW from IST: Jan 2026 was, in many ways, an inflection point. From the resumption of Nvidia H200 sales to China to congressional discussion on restricting remote cloud access, a new memo from IST’s #AIChipExportControl Initiative unpacks what these developments mean for the future.
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As AI tech enters nuclear weapons, policy debates are accelerating faster than practitioners can keep up. The new Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator at IST seeks to close this gap, providing mid-career professionals with hands-on technical literacy & applied engagement.
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“Even when compared to other critical infrastructure (CI) sectors, water stands out as particularly “target rich and cyber poor,ˮ’ the report reads, citing @joshcorman.bsky.social and #U27.
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In the Almanack, DEF CON Franklin called out IST’s #UnDisruptable27 Initiative, alongside fellow #CyberCivilDefense grantees, including the @cyberpeaceinst.bsky.social and @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Cyber Resilience Corps.
At @defcon.bsky.social last summer, hackers of all kinds convened to share #cyber research. The Hackers’ Almanack translates this work into plain language to give policymakers a window into the latest in offensive AI, cybercrime, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities & more.
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At the Third Annual #CyberPolicyAwards, NJ CISO Michael Geraghty was awarded the Cyber Policy Award for U.S. Domestic Policy Impact. NJOHSP director Thomas Hauck congratulated Michael, commending his “exceptional leadership & vision in advancing New Jersey’s cybersecurity capabilities.”
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The Andrew Carnegie AI–Nuclear Policy Accelerator is a new, practitioner-focused initiative designed to strengthen decision-making at the intersection of #AI & #nuclear. Are you a mid-career professional in the national security space seeking hands-on technical literacy & engagement?
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The future with AI in it is filled with “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns.” For the #NatSpecs blog, IST’s Mariami Tkeshelashvili reflects on her co-authored report, released today, and what she sees as our #AI responsibility.
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Also in this edition:
+Dr. Natalie Sullivan joins @brysonbort.bsky.social on @hacktheplant.bsky.social to discuss cascading failures in our public health systems
+Nick Leiserson & Taylor Grossman urge policymakers to “wake up” to the Res. Proxy threat
+Winners of the Third Annual #CyberPolicyAwards!
Welcome back to The TechnologIST! This month, we’re looking at the risk of AI Loss of Control – that is, models diverging from authorized constraints, to the extent that a human operator can no longer prevent or constrain undesired outcomes.
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Thank you to @pjmfdn.bsky.social for their generous support of IST’s continued AI research!
