The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Information Technology
Scholarly Publications
Documenting Cyber Security Incidents
December 2015
Organizations often record cybersecurity incidents to track employee workload, satisfy auditors, fulfil reporting requirements, or to analyze cyber risk.
Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid “Smart”
December 2013
Abstract: Electrical grids have long depended upon information infrastructures—systems for exchanging information about electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and use.
How Much Is Enough? A Risk-Management Approach to Computer Security
August 2000
How much security is enough? No one today can satisfactorily answer this question for computer-related risks.
Other Publications
Maneuvering The China-U.S. Relationship in Cyberspace
October 2015
The article examines the impact of the summit between President Obama and President Xi on future cybersecurity relations between the two countries, and the changing nature of cyber cooperation and...
Analysis of Pin and TPM for Microsoft Laptops
September 2015
Organizations routinely face risk trade-offs.
Is the Elephant Learning to Dance? The Diffusion of the Internet in the Republic of India
April 2002
Published in conjunction with the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), Georgia Institute of Technology.
News
Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos joins Stanford University as fellow
August 2018
Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution announced today the appointment of Alex Stamos as a William J.
New project looks at ethics of technology and war
December 2014
FSI Senior Fellow Scott Sagan is the chair of a new project by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, called the New Dilemmas in Ethics, Technology and War.
Events
Chinese Investments in U.S. Venture Technology: Accessing the Crown Jewels of U.S. Innovation
February 12, 2018
Abstract: China’s participation in venture deals financing is at a record level of 10-16% of all venture deals (2015-2017) and has grown quite rapidly in the past seven years. Technologies where...
Bits and pieces: Liberal democracy in the digital era
March 14, 2017
The event is a joint sponsorship between CISAC, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the European Security Initiative (in The Europe Center) and the Center for Russian, East...
The Challenges of Providing Data Security
January 18, 2017
Video of Drell Lecture 2017, featuring Admiral Bob R.
Projects
Consortium for Research on Information Security and Policy
As part of a response to growing government concern over the threat of cyber attacks directed against critical national infrastructures, the National Security Agency (NSA) contracted with Stanford...
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Project on Peace and Cooperation in the Asian-Pacific Region
The Project on Peace and Cooperation in the Asian-Pacific Region has been a cornerstone of research at the Center for International Security and Cooperation for three decades.
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