NEWS & EVENTS
Driving Tangible Resilience Improvements
| By Gregory Rattray, Rico Brandenburg, and Matthew Gruber | The success of the resilience program hinges on getting front-line (business and support functions) buy-in, as the front line owns the delivery of the service. One of the biggest
challenges with traditional business continuity is that business continuity activities (for example, business impact analysis, business continuity planning) have not received the time and attention they deserve.
The Neglected Security Gaps in the Global Race for Sovereign AI
| Written By Seungmin (Helen) Lee for World Politics Review |
In recent years, artificial intelligence has emerged as the most significant driver of global data center demand. Four tech giants—Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta and Microsoft—currently control 42 percent of U.S. data center capacity, and these companies spent $155 billion on AI infrastructure in the first half of 2025.
Next Peak Launches “Intelligent Cyber Research”
For the last decade, Next Peak co-founder Greg Rattray has been developing an idea around his passion for the intersection of geopolitics and cyber. Today, as geopolitical risks are increasing from emerging wars, domestic extremism, and erosion of global institutions, Next Peak officially launches a new branch: Intelligent Cyber Research (ICR)—finally bringing Greg’s idea into fruition.
Securing the Backbone of Artificial Intelligence: Protecting Data Centers
| By Seungmin (Helen) Lee | With the explosion in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers to support the exponential integration of AI into businesses, operations, governments, and daily lives, the cybersecurity of AI data centers is becoming increasingly important. Given that AI data centers host AI models, weights, and training data, these centers face an expanded set of threats—particularly related to hardware, model, and geopolitical security. This report recommends a new framework to develop more cyber-secure AI data centers.
Korea’s Evolving AI Regulations
| By Seungmin (Helen) Lee | As AI innovation and development took off in South Korea, so did unethical and unreliable use of the technology. The country’s AI legal framework that passed in December 2024 was designed to place guardrails around the future of AI. However, its impact is yet to be determined.
Common Good Cyber Interviews CDAC Team
We interviewed Ian Pelekis and Seungmin (Helen) Lee from Next Peak, part of the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC). CDAC is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. Currently, CDAC works in collaboration with participating private sector cybersecurity organizations to meet cyber defense aid requests from Ukrainian government ministries and state-owned organizations.
BLOG & PUBLICATIONS
The Cyber Defense Assistance: Imperative Lessons from Ukraine
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Geoff Brown, and Robert Taj Moore | Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment. Governments, citizens, and companies faced a choice—they could support Ukraine in its fight to defend its independence or they could sit back while Russia destroyed the post-war order that has stood since 1945. On an unprecedented scale, a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country.
Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC) led by Next Peak’s Greg Rattray, Releases Joint Statement
Greg Rattray, Executive Director, and Ian Pelekis, Senior Cyber Risk Analyst at Next Peak helped form and drive the activities Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC).
CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine”
They call themselves the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaboration (CDAC), and it is the brainchild of Greg Rattray, a former chief information security officer at JP Morgan Chase. For months, he has been helping build a kind of public-private partnership to combat destructive cyberattacks. This is the first time he’s speaking in depth about the initiative publicly.
New York Cyber Task Force Publishes New Report Calling for National Cyber Response Readiness
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Ian Pelekis | New York, NY – February 26, 2021 – Over the last year, the New York Cyber
Building a Focused Approach to Cyber Defense
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Jim Cummings | The cyber threat landscape is ever-changing, and organizations around the world must continuously reassess their cybersecurity capabilities
Understanding Cyber Operational Collaboration
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Co-Founder of Next Peak | Cyber operational collaboration enables deep, public-private partnerships to secure key critical infrastructure sectors from systemic
BLOG & PUBLICATIONS
The Cyber Defense Assistance: Imperative Lessons from Ukraine
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Geoff Brown, and Robert Taj Moore | Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment. Governments, citizens, and companies faced a choice—they could support Ukraine in its fight to defend its independence or they could sit back while Russia destroyed the post-war order that has stood since 1945. On an unprecedented scale, a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country.
Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC) led by Next Peak’s Greg Rattray, Releases Joint Statement
Greg Rattray, Executive Director, and Ian Pelekis, Senior Cyber Risk Analyst at Next Peak helped form and drive the activities Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC).
CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine”
They call themselves the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaboration (CDAC), and it is the brainchild of Greg Rattray, a former chief information security officer at JP Morgan Chase. For months, he has been helping build a kind of public-private partnership to combat destructive cyberattacks. This is the first time he’s speaking in depth about the initiative publicly.
New York Cyber Task Force Publishes New Report Calling for National Cyber Response Readiness
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Ian Pelekis | New York, NY – February 26, 2021 – Over the last year, the New York Cyber
Building a Focused Approach to Cyber Defense
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Jim Cummings | The cyber threat landscape is ever-changing, and organizations around the world must continuously reassess their cybersecurity capabilities
Understanding Cyber Operational Collaboration
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Co-Founder of Next Peak | Cyber operational collaboration enables deep, public-private partnerships to secure key critical infrastructure sectors from systemic
