Measuring the Security of the Evolving Software Supply Chain: A Research Agenda

Software supply chain security has become increasingly critical due to the widespread reliance on third-party dependencies and the growing attack surface of modern software ecosystems. However, existing quantitative, measurement-based analysis and vulnerability management approaches remain largel...

SoK: Cryptographic Key Recovery for Cryptoasset Custody and Financial Technologies

Cryptoasset systems often bind cryptographic key control to financial control: losing a wallet seed, custody share, hardware device, or smart-account credential can remove spend authority, while compromised recovery can enable theft. Existing work treats recovery through separate vocabularies--ke...

Children Are Not the Enemy: Child-Fit Security As an Alternative to Bans and Surveillance

Digital technologies are now central to children's learning, play, communication, identity formation, and social participation. Yet dominant approaches to children's online safety often rely on containment mechanisms, including bans, age gates, parental controls, monitoring, and screen-time...

Defensible Design for OpenClaw: Securing Autonomous Tool-Invoking Agents

OpenClaw-like agents offer substantial productivity benefits, yet they are insecure by default because they combine untrusted inputs, autonomous action, extensibility, and privileged system access within a single execution loop. We use OpenClaw as an exemplar of a broader class of agents that...

AI and Cybersecurity

Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading...

A New Cybersecurity Research Agenda (In Three Minutes or Less)

Editor’s Note: As the CISO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA-backed strategic investment firm focused on developing technologies for the intelligence community, Dan Geer gets paid to help find the answers to big questions about computer security, national security, privacy and technology. Headlines proliferat...

Some Advice for Howard Schmidt

It’s been little more than 24 hours since President Obama named Howard Schmidt his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, but it didn’t take nearly that long for just about everyone with any interest in security to line up on one side or the other of the “he has no chance/he’ll save the Internet”...