Past Events

ICTS Seminar - Al-Qa’ida: Sixteen Years after 9/11 and Beyond
ICTS Seminar - Al-Qa’ida: Sixteen Years after 9/11 and Beyond
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies International Center for Terrorism Studies As we mark the 16th anniversary of 9/11, is the worst yet to come? Will al-Qa’ida and its expanding network continue to threaten global security concerns? And what are the prospects of the U.S. and its allies to ult...
ICTS Seminar - Combating Biological Terrorism: Roadmaps for Global Strategies
ICTS Seminar - Combating Biological Terrorism: Roadmaps for Global Strategies
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies International Center for Terrorism Studies August 24, 2017 Biological security concerns are a permanent fixture of history, ranging from Mother Nature’s infectious diseases to man-made threats. Recent epidemics, such as Ebola and Zika, and the potential dan...

The CRI country profiles (France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United States) have been translated into Chinese.  Many thanks to the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) for their translation and publication.  Please click here to download.

The Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 shows that few countries have aligned their national economic vision (digital agenda) with their national security agenda, and seeks to incentivize this alignment by bringing attention to each country's Internet-infrastructure dependencies and vulnerabilities, and the national economic erosion caused by cyber insecurity. The CRI 2.0 builds on the Cyber Readiness Index 1.0 and provides a comprehensive, comparative, experience-based methodology to evaluate countries' commitment and maturity to closing the gap between their current cyber security posture and the national cyber capabilities needed to support their digital future.

The CRI 2.0 methodology is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, and is currently being applied to 125 countries. The resulting country reports are based on over seventy unique indicators across seven essential elements to discern operationally ready activities and identify areas for improvement in the following categories: national strategy, incident response, e-crime and law enforcement, information sharing, investment in research and development (R&D), diplomacy and trade, and defense and crisis response. 

The CRI country profiles of France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United States can be found at the following link: https://potomacinstitute.org/academic-centers/cyber-readiness-index.