Research Index
Research and Publications by Christopher Braccia
The complete bibliography: peer-visible papers, sector advisories, and working analysis on Volt Typhoon, China, Iran, frontier AI, subsea cables, telecommunications, Taiwan, and critical infrastructure. Every published item links to its full text.
- 2026BRF-08
Algorithmic Siege: China's Machine-Speed Rehearsal for TaiwanNew
·Christopher Braccia
How PRC operators are compressing the timeline from reconnaissance to effect — AI-accelerated tradecraft rehearsed against regional networks as pre-positioning for a 2027 Taiwan contingency.
- PRC Taiwan 2027
- AI cyber operations
- critical infrastructure security
- 2026BRF-09
Taiwan Blockade and Invasion: The Case for an Enforced Freedom of Navigation TreatyNew
·Christopher Braccia
Why a blockade or quarantine is the more likely form of coercion against Taiwan, and the case for an enforced Freedom of Navigation Treaty as the missing deterrent.
- PRC Taiwan 2027
- freedom of navigation
- Indo-Pacific security
- 2026BRF-07
Parallel Playbooks
·Christopher Braccia
How multiple state actors converge on strikingly similar critical-infrastructure tradecraft, and what the overlap reveals about intent.
Working paper — available on request- nation-state cyber operations
- critical infrastructure security
- grey-zone cyber operations
- 2026BRF-03
Iran Cyber Threat BriefSSRN
·Christopher Braccia
An assessment of Iran-linked cyber threats to U.S. and allied infrastructure, with a companion telecom risk advisory.
- Iran cyber threat
- critical infrastructure security
- communications sector security
- 2026ADV-01
Iran-Related Telecom Risk AdvisoryAdvisory
·Christopher Braccia
A communications-sector risk advisory issued alongside the Iran Cyber Threat Brief: exposure, likely vectors, and concrete mitigations for U.S. and allied telecom operators.
- communications sector security
- Iran cyber threat
- critical infrastructure security
- 2025BRF-02
The Bear and the Dragon in the WiresRevised 2026
·Christopher Braccia
How Russia and China are building Iran's cyber arsenal against critical infrastructure, traced across all sixteen U.S. sectors.
- Iran cyber threat
- nation-state cyber operations
- critical infrastructure security
- 2025BRF-04
Frontier AI in Communications InfrastructureRevised 2026
·Christopher Braccia
Accountability and oversight for frontier AI deployed inside critical communications systems, and the function-based framework operators and regulators can build around.
- frontier AI
- communications sector security
- critical infrastructure security
- 2026BRF-05
Severed Above and Below
·Christopher Braccia
Subsea cables and LEO satellite ground stations have become a single convergent communications-risk domain, with AI accelerating both attack and defense across the seam between them.
- subsea cables
- LEO satellite security
- critical infrastructure security
- 2026BRF-10
Việt Nam — Đối Tác Chiến Lược Hàng Đầu Về An Ninh Mạng
·Christopher Braccia
A Vietnamese-language argument for Vietnam as a leading strategic cybersecurity partner, built from its own interests: subsea corridors, supply chains, and hard-won intrusion experience.
- Vietnam cybersecurity
- Indo-Pacific security
- Southeast Asia cyber
- 2025The Diplomat
Southeast Asia: China's Cyber Incubator and the Looming Day One ThreatThe Diplomat
·Christopher Braccia
The companion to the flagship paper: how Beijing treated Southeast Asia as a single, centrally directed proving ground, refining the edge-device and telecom tradecraft that later surfaced as Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon inside U.S. critical infrastructure.
- Southeast Asia cyber
- Salt Typhoon
- PRC Taiwan 2027
- 2025BRF-01
From Vietnam to Volt TyphoonFlagship
·Christopher Braccia
How PRC-linked actors refined grey-zone cyber tactics across Vietnam and ASEAN, then turned the same playbook against Western critical infrastructure.
- Volt Typhoon
- grey-zone cyber operations
- Vietnam cybersecurity
- 2025BRF-06
Strengthening America's Digital BackboneUSTelecom
·Christopher Braccia
Why the moment calls for a cybersecurity reset, and a recommitment to the public-private partnerships that defend U.S. critical infrastructure.
- critical infrastructure security
- communications sector security
- public-private partnership