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Frank J. Cilluffo

Frank J. Cilluffo
Frank J. Cilluffo is the director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and the host of its Cyber Focus podcast. Cilluffo is a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council, and he’s routinely called upon to advise senior officials in the executive branch, U.S. Armed Services, and state and local governments on an array of matters related to national and homeland security strategy and policy.
Emerging Tech

Flying under the radar: Congress is poised to let key counter-drone authorities lapse

COMMENTARY | It could put our nation’s critical infrastructure and American lives at risk by creating an unnecessary gap in the fabric of our nation’s security.

  • By Frank J. Cilluffo and Kyle Klein
Cybersecurity

With hacking of US utilities, Russia could move from cyber espionage toward cyber war

The distinction between exploiting weaknesses to gather information and using those vulnerabilities to actually do damage is impossibly thin.

  • By Sharon L. Cardash and Frank J. Cilluffo, GCN
Cybersecurity

Police around the world learn to fight global-scale cybercrime

The multinational cooperation involved in successfully taking down the Avalanche network can be a model for future efforts in fighting digital crime.

  • By Alec Nadeau, Rob Wainwright and Frank J. Cilluffo, GCN