An analysis of the Republican Party platform, which takes a tough stand against Chinese and Russian hackers and suggests "hack back" as a suitable cyber defense, highlights this edition of the ISMG Security Report.

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The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Tuesdays and Fridays. Be sure to check out our July 15 and July 19 reports, which respectively analyze Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May's record on cybersecurity and online privacy and the human factor in the age of cyber conflict. The next ISMG Security Report will be posted Tuesday, July 26.

Theme music for the ISMG Security Report by Ithaca Audio under Creative Commons license.