A Private Message of Thanks from The Cipher Temporary

A PERSONAL MESSAGE / OPINION — On this house that’s usually reserved for world-class reporting and evaluation of worldwide safety points, we thought we’d do one thing totally different this Thanksgiving weekend and take a second to thanks and let you know the way a lot you encourage us and the way a lot you could have taught us in regards to the worth of neighborhood.

Once we got down to launch a brand new media firm again in 2015, our purpose was to create an unbiased and non-partisan publication that utilized deeply-experienced experience to the problems of the day.  We needed to publish a product that went past telling you what occurred and produce you the expert-level context all of us want to assist navigate an more and more difficult world. 

Greater than 9 years later, what we realized is that we didn’t simply create a publication, we created a neighborhood.  Right this moment, The Cipher Temporary neighborhood consists of greater than 500K readers, subscribers and followers who deeply care in regards to the high quality and perspective of knowledge on nationwide and international safety points.

To serve that neighborhood, we goal to publish among the greatest reporting within the enterprise, we share expert-level opinion items and commentary (at all times clearly labeled ‘opinion’) and we offer evaluation that provides our subscribers a number of lenses via which to know occasions.

We’re extremely grateful to our crew right here at The Cipher Temporary for pulling all of this collectively day-after-day in an simply digestible means.  And we’re extremely grateful for you. Operating a media publication in immediately’s atmosphere is just not for the faint-hearted.  You’ve got confirmed to us that’s it’s price it. You don’t simply learn the information – you contribute to the dialog, and you might be part of our neighborhood. We hearken to and worth your suggestions and because of this, we create new merchandise just like the Open Supply Report, to maintain you in control every day in the identical means {that a} president’s crew retains the nation’s senior management up to date.  

We’re additionally grateful for the chance to provide credible, non-partisan, public-private sector occasions that convey collectively the world’s high minds on points starting from geopolitical headlines to the rising impression of cyber and rising expertise and starting in 2025, we’re focusing loads on the funding neighborhood, which is enjoying an more and more vital function in future U.S. and international safety.  (Learn The Cipher Temporary’s Nightcap Publication to be among the many first to seek out out about our convergence convention in Austin, Texas subsequent 12 months.)

This 12 months, a lot of you joined us for The Cipher Temporary Risk Convention as CIA Director Invoice Burns shared with us the one factor that retains him up at evening, NSA Director Timothy Haugh advised us why the U.S. wants a ‘complete of nation’ strategy in relation to China and leaders from among the world’s most impactful firms shared insights on how they’re innovating to remain forward of the threats.

We’re grateful to you all.  Thanks for being part of The Cipher Temporary Group. Could coming collectively at all times ship extra worth to all of us, than going it alone.

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