The Lawfare Podcast: Helen Mohrmann on Cybersecurity in an Insecure Environment

We often talk about cybersecurity on the show, but the Brookings Institution—Lawfare's institutional home and publishing partner—has itself been subject to a number of cyber-attacks in recent years. Those attacks have ranged from infiltrations led by Chinese government-affiliated units to the more run-of-the-mill hacker intrusions targeting credit and financial information.

This week on the Lawfare Podcast, Helen Mohrmann, the Chief Information Officer at the Brookings Institution, discusses the difficulties of securing a large, decentralized, public-facing organization from a vast array of cyber-attacks. Helen walks Ben through the threat environment that an organization like Brookings faces (and how that is continuously changing) and she outlines some of the steps organizations and individuals can take to shore up their own security (don't take your laptop to Beijing or Tehran).