Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21st Century Challenge

by Arnaud de Borchgrave

The capacity to produce, communicate, and use information is affecting every area of national security, from the way we govern ourselves to the way we fight wars to the way transnational criminal organizations increase in scope and power to the way activists and extremists mobilize support across borders. Yet security measures against cyber threats are insufficient throughout both government and the private sector. This report illuminates the problem and lays out the first, essential, steps for defending the homeland against this new reality.

56 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 2001

About the author

Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in international politics. Following a long career with the magazine Newsweek, he held key editorial and executive positions with The Washington Times and United Press International. De Borchgrave was also a founding member of Newsmax Media.

Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, King's Canterbury, and the United States. As Belgium fell to the German invasion, he and his family escaped on a freighter, being rescued by a British destroyer after the freighter's captain had attempted to divert to Hamburg. He served in the British Royal Navy (1942–1946), from the age of 15, after running away from home, convincing his grandmother to assist in falsifying his age so he could enlist. He gave up his Belgian title of nobility in 1951.

He was awarded the Médaille Maritime by Belgium. In July 2014, Borchgrave was awarded the Legion of Honor, France's highest civilian distinction.