Research Library

Since 2015, CLTC has directly funded more than 160 projects by UC Berkeley students, faculty & affiliates on original cybersecurity research topics, in addition to developing our own white papers, publications, blogs, policy analysis and recommendations, and open-source curricula and toolkits.

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May 13, 2025	Blog Post	Reflections on Cybersecurity Futures 2025: Looking Back from the Present By: Nick Merrill, Steven Weber In this article, Nick Merrill and Steve Weber conduct a “postmortem” analysis of the Cybersecurity Futures 2025 scenarios, which were written in 2020. The authors look at what they got right — and wrong — and what it means for our understanding of changes and trends in technology and digital security.	artificial intelligence (AI)data economy deep fake digital harms globalization governance infrastructure internet fragmentation misinformation privacy quantum scenarios surveillance synthetic media (deepfakes)
May 12, 2025	Blog Post	Slashing EPA funding may have downstream cybersecurity impacts on an already vulnerable water sector By: Shannon Pierson America’s water and wastewater utilities rely on the Environmental Protection Agency for cybersecurity support and guidance. With the EPA’s funding on the Trump Administration’s chopping block, America’s water…	digital harms homeland security infrastructure national security public interest cybersecurity
May 8, 2025	White Paper	Survey of Search Engine Safeguards and their Applicability for AI By: Evan R. Murphy, Nada Madkour, Deepika Raman, Krystal Jackson, Jessica Newman, Survey of Search Engine Safeguards and their Applicability for AI A new research paper from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity examines how safeguards designed for search engines could be adopted by developers of AI systems like ChatGPT. The…	artificial intelligence (AI)data sharing digital harms engineering homeland security machine learning (ML)misinformation national security
April 16, 2025	White Paper	The South Korean Digital Paradox: How South Korea’s Internet Development Model Creates Unique Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities By: Nick Merrill, The South Korean Digital Paradox: How South Korea’s Internet Development Model Creates Unique Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities South Korea is home to one of the world’s most robust digital infrastructures, largely as a result of a government-led development model that has favored domestic technologies. Nearly…	governance infrastructure internet fragmentation misinformation policy risk scenarios
March 31, 2025	White Paper	Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls: Lessons Learned from the Wassenaar Experience By: Elaine Korzak A new white paper from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity explores the use of international export controls to limit the dissemination of commercial spyware technologies. The paper, “Managing…	digital harms governance law enforcement national security policy privacy surveillance
February 3, 2025	White Paper	Intolerable Risk Threshold Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence By: Deepika Raman, Nada Madkour, Evan R. Murphy, Krystal Jackson, Jessica Newman January has already seen the release of new frontier models that are creating waves with unprecedented innovation in their development and uplift in their capabilities. Simultaneously, we are…	artificial intelligence (AI)risk
January 29, 2025	White Paper	Impacts of Open Radio Access Networks for Operators, Policymakers, and Consumers By: Jon Metzler A new white paper published by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity examines the implications of “open radio access networks,” or Open RAN, a movement focused…	5G governance infrastructure
January 28, 2025	White Paper	AI Risk-Management Standards Profile for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) and Foundation Models By: Anthony Barrett, Jessica Newman, Brandie Nonnecke, Nada Madkour, Dan Hendrycks, Evan R. Murphy, Krystal Jackson, Deepika Raman The first annual update to the AI Risk-Management Standards Profile for General-Purpose AI Systems (GPAIS) and Foundation Models (Version 1.1) has been published by a team of researchers…	artificial intelligence (AI)risk
November 27, 2024	Grant	Avenger: Looking Into The Future of Internet Censorship With Artificial Intelligence Algorithms By: Changcheng Fan Internet censorship is a critical human rights issue, as the internet has rapidly become the primary mode of communication globally. While many censorship circumvention tools exist, they are…	artificial intelligence (AI)censorship
November 27, 2024	Grant	Cyber City By: Brandon Dang, Boo Park, Jennifer Telisczak, Dante Terminella This capstone project addresses an urgent need in society through an innovative approach: a role-playing mobile game designed to teach users, particularly seniors and non-tech professionals, about social…	education social engineering vulnerable populations

Research Library

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Reflections on Cybersecurity Futures 2025: Looking Back from the Present

Slashing EPA funding may have downstream cybersecurity impacts on an already vulnerable water sector

Survey of Search Engine Safeguards and their Applicability for AI

The South Korean Digital Paradox: How South Korea’s Internet Development Model Creates Unique Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls: Lessons Learned from the Wassenaar Experience

Intolerable Risk Threshold Recommendations for Artificial Intelligence

Impacts of Open Radio Access Networks for Operators, Policymakers, and Consumers

AI Risk-Management Standards Profile for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) and Foundation Models

Avenger: Looking Into The Future of Internet Censorship With Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

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