Emily Harding

is deputy director and senior fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She joined CSIS from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), where she was deputy staff director. During her tenure on the Committee, she led the Committee’s multiyear investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections and also served as the subject matter expert on election security, counterintelligence and associated cybersecurity issues, and the Middle East. She began her career as a leadership analyst at CIA, and then became a manager of analysts and analytic programs.

Opinion / Strategy

Bad Idea: Deterrence by Detection

Policymakers are seeking new concepts of deterrence to confront gray zone tactics. Deterrence by detection, however, has two critical flaws, writes Emily Harding: a lack of technical capability and lack of credible will to respond.

Analysis / Forces, Strategy

Need a Role Model for Shared Cyber Incident Response? Look to the Coast Guard

A cyber attack on a major U.S. port in August was thwarted by the port’s use of threat detection software and quick coordination with a capable, trusted public-sector responder: the U.S. Coast Guard. Close coordination and information sharing between industry and the Coast Guard prevented a potential disaster.