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How the UK Can Lead in 5G and 6G Security and Standards
RUSI Newsbrief, 14 August 2020Russell Huang and Grant W Turner
The UK has created one of the best tools for mitigating Huawei’s risks. Whether or not the UK Huawei ban stands, its Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre should receive increased funding and support to protect and enhance its interests at home and abroad.
Tags: Cyber, RUSI Newsbrief, UK, Information, National Security, Technology
Information Sharing in the Era of Coronavirus Tracing Apps – A New Context for Fighting Financial Crime?
Commentary, 11 August 2020Nick J Maxwell
Coronavirus ‘track and trace’ efforts represent a major escalation in how governments analyse personal data. The financial crime-fighting world should pay attention.
Tags: Coronavirus, AML/CTF, Information, Technology
UK Investment Delivers the BBC a Record Global Audience
Commentary, 6 August 2020Jamie Angus
The BBC has now announced record audience growth for BBC News around the world. The investment in the BBC World Service is producing incredible returns for audiences in the UK and around the world.
Tags: UK, InformationPages

Data-Driven Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Privacy Implications
Commentary, 2 April 2020Sneha Dawda and Rebecca Lucas
Many states are using data in innovative ways to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. From track and trace capabilities to the use of telecommunications data for quarantine enforcement, we highlight some of these data-driven national responses and discuss potential implications.
Tags: Cyber, Cyber Security, Coronavirus, Information, Law and Ethics, Technology, Central and South Asia, Middle East and North Africa
Pandemics Present and Future: Coronavirus in Context
Commentary, 30 March 2020Randolph Kent
The coronavirus pandemic should be a telling reminder that the global community has, in all too many ways, not benefited from the lessons that it should have learned from the past.
Tags: Coronavirus, Global Security Issues, Information, Intelligence
Huawei, Not All the Way
Commentary, 27 January 2020James Sullivan
The British government is expected to approve a restricted role for Huawei in Britain’s 5G network. We look at the arguments for that decision.
Tags: China, Cyber Security, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, UK, Domestic Security, Information, Intelligence, TechnologyPages

Defence Data Realities
RUSI Defence Systems, 29 April 2020Roland McTeague
There is more to successful data exploitation than buying tools and expertise. It requires hard thinking and basic management. An analytics specialist offers some guidelines for data analytics success in Defence
Tags: RUSI Defence Systems, Information
War Writing as Ego-Media
RUSI Journal, 17 April 2020Alisa Miller
Blogs were once a place for war writers to communicate calmly with their readers.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Information, Technology
The Far-Right Radicalisation Pipeline and State War-Fighting Capacity
RUSI Defence Systems, 16 April 2020Jackson Oliver Webster
Online radicalisation is a key feature of contemporary far-right movements, and is not only a worrying domestic security concern for increasing numbers of Western countries, but points to deeper Defence vulnerabilities in future state-on-state crises.
Tags: Tackling Extremism, RUSI Defence Systems, Information
FCAS: Is the Franco-German-Spanish Combat Air Programme Really in Trouble?
Getting the Partnership Right
Iran in the South Caucasus: Adjustment and Evolution