The Cyber Vault Project

Featured Posting

SOLAR SUNRISE: 25 Years Older, but 25 Years Wiser?

SOLAR SUNRISE After 25 Years: Are We 25 Years Wiser?

Washington, D.C., February 28, 2023 - In February 1998, 25 years ago this month, the United States suffered a series of cyber intrusions known as SOLAR SUNRISE that then-Deputy…

Feb 28, 2023

Previous Postings

Cyber Brief: The NSA's Cryptolog

Feb 24, 2022

US Capitol overlaid with red binary code

Cyber Brief: Cyber and the Insurrection, One Year Later

Jan 6, 2022

BALTIC GHOST: Supporting NATO in Cyberspace

Dec 6, 2021

Cyber and the 116th Congress

Oct 1, 2021

Cyber Brief: U.S. Biometric Devices Captured by Taliban, According to Report

Aug 20, 2021

Cyber Brief: After Colonial Pipeline, DHS: Less Advice, More Rules

Jul 23, 2021

Cyber Brief: U.S. Seizure of Iranian ‘Disinformation Websites’

Jul 8, 2021

This is Not a Drill: Ransoming American Security

May 12, 2021

A Diplomatic Domain? The Evolution of Diplomacy in Cyberspace

Apr 26, 2021

Featured Article

Overclassification and its Impact on Cyber Conflict and Democracy

As the Cyber Vault project continues to combat the issue of overclassification in the study of cyberspace, Jason Healey and Dr. Robert Jervis discuss the “consequences of one-sided knowledge,” and their impact on both cyber conflict and democracy. Read more…

Highlighted event

Cyber Operations in Context:
A Look at Joint Task Force Ares

Streamed live on Sep 16, 2019

This recorded panel focused on the 2017 declassification of key documents related to the conception, initial standup, and operation of JTF Ares and Operation Glowing Symphony, part of the counter-ISIL cyber effects campaign. One of the panelists, inaugural Cyber Vault Fellow Michael Martelle, discussed his findings and analysis of these documents, housed within the Cyber Vault.

About this project

The field of cyber studies is continuing its sharp upward trajectory. New cyber studies initiatives keep emerging in multiple academic and policy settings, feeding the exponentially increasing literature, and matching a new level of hyper-activity by government and the military. The field features new structures and new actors who are convening the next generation of discussions. Yet with all the growth, practitioners face major constraints on their research, teaching, public discussion, and policy development, most prominently the widely recognized problem of excessive government secrecy preventing scholarly and public access to key primary sources.

The Cyber Vault project is the latest element in the National Security Archive’s long-term commitment to monitor and illuminate key aspects of U.S. national security activities as a means of enhancing public understanding and accountability.