Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)
The U.S. is stepping into a new cyber era, and it comes not a moment too soon. With the Trump administration’s sweeping $1 billion cyber initiative in…
Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t about efficiency — it’s about destruction. We should not let this administration tear down our best defenses against those trying to attack us…
As adversaries deploy more audacious digital attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, necessary innovations to American maritime transportation systems and interests are essential to reinforcing America’s position as the gold standard. (Getty Images)
While the homeland security discussion has focused on the Southern Border, there is more than 95,000 miles of expansive U.S. coastline and over 360 ports that are…
Former President Donald Trump gives a speech on tax reform at the Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club Meeting at a hotel in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The next administration must do better on cyber than previous ones, two experts behind a new McCrary Institute and Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 report argue.