Institute for Security and Technology

🚨Hearing Alert: Congress wants to hear from UnDisruptable27! On 5/19, IST’s @joshcorman will testify before @housescience in a hearing on efforts to protect the nation's drinking water and wastewater systems from growing cyber threats. Follow our socials to watch the hearing live! Learn more: congress.gov/event/119th-co…

“There are well-known engineering mitigations, but these water facilities almost never have the time or the budget to do them...so there are preventable, but often not yet prevented, harm cases,” he said. 🛡️ Learn more about #UnDisruptable27: securityandtechnology.org/undisruptable2…

Pro-Russia hackers disabled operations at multiple water utilities in Poland, cutting off water supply to local populations. The same kind of hybrid warfare also threatens U.S. infrastructure, IST's @joshcorman told @BnkInfoSecurity . 🛡️ Read more: bankinfosecurity.com/russian-attack…

Chinese military hackers known as #VoltTyphoon are pre-positioning in U.S. power grids, water plants & transit systems. IST’s Elizabeth Vish makes the case that getting hackers out of U.S. critical infrastructure should start at this week’s Trump-Xi meeting, but it can’t end there. 🛡️ Read more: securityandtechnology.org/blog/cyber-red…

🎬EVENT TODAY: "When the Classroom Gets Hacked" What do we know so far about the Canvas hack that exposed the data of millions of students, and what should "target rich, cyber poor" organizations be doing to defend against future attacks? Join IST's Michael Klein & @OneRSAC's Kacy Zurkus today at 3:30 ET for answers to these questions & more. linkedin.com/events/whenthe…

🛡️ Learn more about IST’s efforts to strengthen cybersecurity for K-12 schools: securityandtechnology.org/pillar_project…

The widely-used digital learning platform Canvas has been the victim of both a data breach and extortion by hackers in recent weeks. IST's @michaelfklein spoke to @politico's #MorningCybersecurity newsletter on why the education sector continues to suffer from #cyber threats.

🛡️ Read the Counter Ransomware Initiative TTX After Action Report: securityandtechnology.org/virtual-librar…

Glad to see @INTERPOL’s update on the #SilverNotice pilot! Global cooperation on tracing and seizing criminal assets helps make it unprofitable to commit crimes like #ransomware. The silver notice pilot is featured in our CRI tabletop exercise as a possible way for “jurisdictions to request the seizure or freeze of funds.” linkedin.com/comm/pulse/not…

IST’s #CATALINK Initiative has launched a new website! The #CATALINK communications system is an internationally-driven, secure, and resilient communications solution that has the potential to avert catastrophes amidst rising tensions between adversaries. 🌐 Learn more: catalink.org

Later this week, Trump and Xi will sit down in Beijing. AI is on the agenda. In April, IST’s Steve Kelly, @AIpolicynetwork's Mark Beall & @iapsAI's @kelmgren also traveled to China to make the U.S. case on one of the most consequential risks of our time. ❇️ Read more: securityandtechnology.org/blog/ahead-of-…

“If you take down a school district with 500,000 children in it, you’re stopping all those parents from going to work. You’re stopping a huge part of the economy.” IST’s @michaelfklein is #CriticalCyber’s Expert in Focus! He spoke on the #cyber threats facing K-12 schools and why defense matters. 🛡️Read more: criticalcyber.org/blog/expert-kl…

Learn more about UnDisruptable27: securityandtechnology.org/undisruptable2…

🚨Hearing Alert: Congress wants to hear from UnDisruptable27! On 5/19, IST’s @joshcorman will testify before @housescience in a hearing on efforts to protect the nation's drinking water and wastewater systems from growing cyber threats. Follow our socials to watch the hearing live! Learn more: congress.gov/event/119th-co…

🚀 #CriticalEffectDC is today announcing the first round of speakers for this year’s event! Presented by @ICS_Village, in partnership with IST’s #UnDisruptable27 project and AKin, Critical Effect DC ‘26 connects policymakers, think tanks, the media, and the public with the OT and ICS experts on the front lines of securing national security, public safety, and human life. ➡️ Register to attend: eventbrite.com/e/critical-eff…

For the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator inaugural cohort member Ulysse Richard and co-author Yorgo El Moubayed argue that scarce and skewed data should give officials pause before integrating frontier AI into the systems that shape nuclear weapons use decisions. 🌐 Read more: #post-heading" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebulletin.org/2026/04/ai-nuc…

🚨NEW from IST: Nuclear deterrence relies on the credible threat that U.S. nuclear forces can strike under any circumstances. This confidence comes from the NC3 ecosystem. To present a clear picture of these systems, IST's Brandon Cortino & Catherine Murphy release a new primer on the United States’ NC3 operations. ⚠️ Read more: securityandtechnology.org/virtual-librar…

In conducting their research, the authors interviewed IST Director for AI Security Policy Mariami Tkshelashvili to find out more about IST's thinking on loss of control and our Indications & Warning framework, and cited our report! ❇️ Read AI Loss of Control Risk: Indications & Warning: securityandtechnology.org/virtual-librar…

For @LongResilience's #GoverningTransformativeAI substack, @jesswhittles and Hamish Hobbs present a framework for AI loss of control risks, defining loss of control around misalignment, incorrigibility, and empowerment. ➡️ Read the blog: governingtransformativeai.substack.com/p/misalignment…

🗓️ EVENT TOMORROW: What has the growth of China’s AI industry looked like? What is currently misunderstood or underestimated about its trajectory? IST’s experts join SCSP's AI+ Expo at 2:30 PM for “From Funding to Foundries: How China Builds AI Power.” ➡️ Register to attend: expo.scsp.ai/register/

🛡️ Watch Dark Screens: The Ransomware Task Force At 5 Years: securityandtechnology.org/event/dark-scr…

Five years after Colonial Pipeline, #ransomware remains a commonplace threat, but attackers’ methods have scaled dramatically. For Bank Info Security, Mathew J. Schwartz recapped last week’s event marking the 5-year anniversary of the Ransomware Task Force Report with RTF co-chairs and author Anja Shortland. ➡️ Read more: bankinfosecurity.com/ransomware-def…