Cybersecurity is essential to modern life. It’s the way we bank, shop, learn, and — increasingly — it’s the way we drive, heat our homes, and even vote. Protecting our digital lives is no longer just about ensuring we don’t lose our family pictures. It’s about protecting our values, our health, our culture, and our democracy.
Aspen Digital connects, grows, and challenges cyber leaders from industry, government, and civil society to generate solutions to the critical security challenges of the digital age and maximize the positive impact of innovation on society.
Aspen Cyber Summit
An annual gathering of top leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society to discuss the world’s urgent cyber issues
Preparing For Q-Day
A project exploring the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) era delivering a resource for emergency planning in a “break glass” scenario.
Cyber Civil Defense
Cyber Civil Defense programming and insights from Aspen Digital and Take9 leadership.
Featured Cyber Projects
Initiatives from our cross-sectoral convenings with leading cybersecurity experts and timely commentary by top policy leaders on the most pressing challenges they face
Global Cybersecurity Group
A broad and varied collective of approximately 40 leaders from allied and like-minded nations committed to preserving peace and freedom online
U.S. Cybersecurity Group
The nation’s leading cross-sector, public-private cybersecurity forum for translating pressing cybersecurity conversations into action
Insights and Events
Beyond Model Restrictions: The Case For Arming Cyber Defenders With AI
During a time of constant Artificial Intelligence (AI) whiplash, it is helpful to step back and review what has happened since Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview in early April 2026.
Announcing the Anti-Scams Philanthropy Collaborative
Press Release
Today, Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, Google.org, Dalberg, Asian Development Bank (ADB), craig newmark philanthropies, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Vodafone Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation are announcing the Anti-Scams Philanthropy Collaborative.
Global Cybersecurity Group Announcement
Press Release
Aspen Digital announces collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Office of the Government of Japan for the Global Cybersecurity Group Meeting in May 2026.
Responsible Advanced Access for Frontier AI Models
For decades, cybersecurity policy has rested on a simple but hard‑won insight: the most successful processes are coordinated, orderly, and transparent. With the emergence of frontier AI models with cutting-edge cyber capabilities, we need a similar practice that we’re calling Responsible Advanced Access. In this paper, experts discuss advanced access and the need for a…
Cybersecurity in a Post-Mythos World
AI has brought cybersecurity to an inflection point that requires more than new tools: we need better, more nimble governance policies. Models like Anthropic’s Mythos can now find and exploit software flaws faster than humans can fix them. This paper focuses first on governance, offering questions executives and boards can use to assess the strengths, weaknesses,…
Take9: Advancing Cybersecurity Practices Through Consumer Awareness
Online threats are on the rise: despite consumer awareness that the security landscape is dangerous and harder to navigate, individuals are taking fewer actions to protect themselves online. Take9, a national public service campaign dedicated to increasing public awareness on cybersecurity practices to help individuals, communities, and the nation protect against online attacks and threats,…