Financial markets appear seamless: prices update in real time, trades execute instantly, and capital moves with speed and precision. But beneath that experience is a concentrated and highly interdependent infrastructure layer that makes modern markets possible.

Governing powerful technologies under uncertainty requires making bets. The question is not whether to bet. It is whether the bet you are making is calibrated to the actual risk.

As emphasized in President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, the transition to PQC must begin immediately. While extensive federal guidance exists, urgent action from Congress and executive agencies is needed to allocate the necessary resources, improve preparedness, and drive adoption across critical infrastructure. The report’s recommendations provide a framework for achieving national PQC resilience.

Acquisition reform returns as a familiar Washington ritual, yet change is often only seen at the margins. The task at hand has simply been too monumental to effectively revamp the entire system: Reforming how the Pentagon buys alone isn’t enough, any meaningful transformation depends on revitalizing the industrial base, strengthening supply chain security, giving industry the capital and demand certainty to invest, requirements-setting, and sustained workforce development and

War has always targeted infrastructure. In conflict, the systems that sustain an adversary's ability to operate are identified and acted upon. In a digitally dependent society, data centers sit at the center of those systems. As the cybersecurity community gathers this week for the RSA Conference, the systems that support our digital world warrant closer attention.

Explore leadership under pressure in SC Media’s “How We Lead: At the Seams,” where Cory Simpson reflects on the disciplines—presence, humility, empathy, and resilience—that define effective cybersecurity and organizational leadership as we transition into 2026.

The security of critical infrastructure is essential to national security. It is essential that there be a core authority that is responsible for its cybersecurity. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, is an entity essential to supporting national security and critical infrastructure security. CISA provides a level of centralization that is crucial to supporting security at the national level, including supporting critical infrastructure. The core mi

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