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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang participates in a Q&A at the company’s annual GTC developers conference in San Jose, California, on March 17, 2026. Huang on Monday said the leading artificial intelligence chip maker is heading for space with a goal of powering orbiting data centers. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images)

We’re only seeing the tip of the chip-smuggling iceberg

A string of federal indictments has exposed a pervasive shadow network of data centers and fake products spanning Southeast Asia. To secure national security, the U.S. must…
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)

Secretary Mullin must help finish the job: Urge the Senate to confirm Plankey

With global cyber threats escalating and budget cuts looming, CISA needs a Senate-confirmed director. It’s time to confirm Sean Plankey.
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Don’t just fight fraud, hunt it

As traditional fraud markers become obsolete, we must treat digital identity as critical infrastructure and adopt a layered, real-time defense to neutralize sophisticated crime rings.
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Construction on an Oncor electricity power plant by the new Skybox Power Campus data colocation center in North Austin, Texas. Cybersecurity must be table stakes as the data center boom continues, this op-ed argues. (Getty Images)

Why ‘secure-by-design’ systems are non-negotiable in the AI era

Trillions in AI infrastructure face systemic failure unless security begins at the chip and ends with the grid.
The great wall of China at sunset. (Getty Images)

AI security’s ‘Great Wall’ problem

AI security requires more than cloud hardening. The real attack surface isn't your infrastructure—it's the supply chains, agents, and humans that make up the system around it.
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