Insights & Research

The Center strongly supports Australia’s goal of protecting users from online harms. These recommendations are critical to ensuring that the effort to protect users does not inadvertently have the contrary effect of weakening online protections. 

HPC encourages the Task Force to consider two priorities as it begins its work: (1) ensure its recommendations protect legitimate security research, and (2) directly engage with HPC and the security research community as key stakeholders.

VDCs have the potential to improve security, privacy, usability, and inclusivity for individuals and businesses if they are designed, deployed, and used responsibly. However, the introduction of government-issued VDCs also carries the risk of eroding

The report covers Europe’s cybersecurity industry, investment landscape, and evolving cyber posture, but it also spends considerable time on a more basic question: what actually counts as “offensive cybersecurity” in the first place?

Governments, private-sector organizations, service providers, researchers, legal experts, and other stakeholders can all play roles in understanding and responding to cyber threats. First they need a shared terminology.

A central theme emerged across the conversation: greater digital sovereignty does not have to mean greater digital isolation.

On September 9, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its Cyber Strategy, outlining its approach to defending the homeland in cyberspace and imposing costs on cyber adversaries.

The 2026 Summit demonstrated both the scale of the cybersecurity challenges facing the Americas and the growing willingness of leaders across the region to address them collaboratively.

Key details of a new presidential memorandum authorizing companies to conduct cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations remain to be developed.

The European Union's new e-Evidence framework promises to dramatically transform the way law enforcement can access data for criminal investigations and prosecutions across borders.