In recent weeks, the world has been intently following the Cambridge Analytica revelations: millions of Facebook users’ personal data was used, without their knowledge, to aide the political campaigns of

The rapid growth of digital data stores and the increasing vulnerability in intellectual property challenges governments around the world to find ways to protect and regulate the flow and storage

Data localization laws require that certain types of data be stored within a country before being allowed to move outside that country’s borders. Internationally, there has been an increase in

Cryptography is a fundamental building block in the security of many systems integral to the modern web. It protects online communications, secures websites, ensures safe transactions between parties, and verifies

China is not the first country to pursue data localization. Nigeria has required all subscriber and consumer data of ICT companies to be stored locally within the country, as well

In the wake of recent cyber-attacks and data leaks, countries have increasingly enacted data localization laws aimed at limiting the cross-border flow of data and monitoring corporations and individuals (Panday

While countries around the world are enacting data barriers, the Japanese government has kept their data borders relatively free from constraints. Other countries create data barriers based on the rationale

The Cybersecurity Initiative at the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute has published two research briefs on emerging cybersecurity topics, in collaboration with Digital Futures Project at Wilson Center. In “Cybersecurity Workforce Preparedness: The

Cybersecurity Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Jessica Beyer and Ph.D. Candidate Donghui Park‘s analysis published by Reuters in December 2017 has been quoted in an article on North Korean cyber attacks

Lecturer Scott Montgomery and Alumnus Michael Walstrom (MAIS, South Asia, 2017) author several articles on “Global Energy Today: The Asian Nexus” in November and December 2017, published by the Seattle