Cyber Security Project Events Series

Join the Belfer Center’s Cyber Project on Tuesday, September 27, for a discussion on “Six Challenges the U.S. Must Win” and other key findings in the first report from the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). The SCSP is tasked with developing a plan to improve the U.S. position in the international competition by 2025 and identify those technology areas where we must act by 2030 to retain our advantage.

Cyber Project Executive Director and acting Belfer Center Executive Director Lauren Zabierek will speak with authors of the report, Mid-Decade Challenges to National Competitiveness, about what they’ve learned about U.S. competitiveness following hundreds of meetings during the past year and what they recommend as paths forward. An audience Q&A will follow the discussion.

Please join the Belfer Center Cyber Project with predoctoral fellow Amy Ertan as she presents her published co-authored work alongside Maggie Gray, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in the Military: An Overview of NATO Member States’ Strategies and Deployment with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCDCOE) as part of a two-part report series. 

What does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for future warfare? From the DoD’s Strategy to NATO’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Roadmap, recent years have seen an intense evolution in understanding, research, and rapid deployment of AI capabilities within the military sphere. This talk focuses first on how the North Atlantic Trade Organisation (NATO) has approached military AI innovation. The presentation will then explore national approaches to AI, drawing on Amy Ertan's doctoral research in which current and former military, technical and policy-focused experts were interviewed on themes including technical security challenges, hype, private-sector military AI innovation, and state perceptions on military "AI arms race" dynamics. 

You can read the NATO CCDCOE report here: https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-autonomy-in-the-military-an-overview-of-nato-member-states-strategies-and-deployment/

The increasing tempo of offensive cyber operations by Iran and its adversaries, including the US and Israel, has led many commentators to label them as “tit-for-tat”: a cyclical action-reaction dynamic where each side seeks to respond appropriately to an earlier violation by the other. However, this interpretation has significant theoretical and empirical deficiencies. Why, then, does a tit-for-tat narrative dominate our understanding of Iranian cyber activity, and what are the consequences?

Join the Cyber Project in conversation with James Shires and Mike McGetrick, the authors of the report, Rational Not Reactive: Re-evaluating Expectations of Iranian Cyber Strategy Beyond “Tit-for-Tat.”  The work of Shires and McGetrick, along with important research contributions by HKS MPP graduate, Usha Sahay, will contribute significantly to the collective understanding of Iran's broader strategy for its cyber operations. 

Join the Cyber Project as we explore the grave impacts of ransomware on our national (and international) security.  We will explore recent lessons from attacks on the healthcare and financial industries, discuss recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force, and ask what role the US government should take to combat the threat, especially through the Department of Defense (reports linked below).

The Cyber Peace Insitute: Playing with Lives: Cyberattacks on Healthcare are Attacks on People https://cyberpeaceinstitute.org/publications/sar001-healthcare/

Ransomware Task Force Report: Combatting Ransomware. A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force: https://securityandtechnology.org/ransomwaretaskforce/report/ 

What Is Cyber Command’s Role in Combating Ransomware? https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-cyber-commands-role-combating-ransomware 

Join the Cyber Project with Bruce Schneier as he discusses his paper, The Coming AI Hackers:  Bruce Schneier warns that artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage.

This event will be held at One Brattle, Suite 470 and will be capped at 15 students per COVID guidelines.

Join Russia Matters and the Cyber Project as we explore whether there should be “Rules of the Road” with Russia in the Cyber domain. Two of the authors of the recent paper, “US-Russian Contention in Cyberspace: Are Rules of the Road Necessary or Possible?” Cyber Project Executive Director Lauren Zabierek and Pavel Sharikov, senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, will provide their own perspectives on this topic, exploring where the US and Russia converge and diverge on the issues.

Moderated by Intelligence Project Director Paul Kolbe, this conversation will be especially relevant after the historic Biden-Putin Summit on June 16.  

Disclaimer: This event is under Chatham House Rules. The event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization. If any journalists in attendance would like to quote the panelists, please contact them directly.

Please join the Cyber Project and the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in conversation with members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) as they present their recommendations from the commission's final report. 

The final report focuses on two parts: Defending America in the AI Era, and Winning the Technology Competition.  You can read an interactive version of the report here: https://reports.nscai.gov/final-report/table-of-contents/ 

Disclaimer: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

Join the Cyber Project in conversation with Nicole Perlroth, author of This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, which is the culmination of years of research and interviews covering the cyber arms race.  On this stop on her virtual book tour, we'll discuss where around the globe her research took  her, the conclusions she developed, and her thoughts for U.S. national cybersecurity policy. 

Disclaimer: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

On Friday, March 19, the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy communities will come together to lift the voices of Black Women in the field as part of the #ShareTheMicInCyber campaign in celebration of Women’s History Month.  

#ShareTheMicInCyber is an online conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn started by Camille Stewart and Lauren Zabierek, with the aim of addressing a number of issues stemming from systemic racism in cybersecurity. The campaign highlights the experiences of Black practitioners in this field, catalyzing a critical conversation on race in the industry and shining a light on Black practitioners’ accomplishments to identify them as experts in their fields, all while creating professional opportunities and bringing the community together.

Racism, like cybersecurity, is a national security issue. It’s not enough to be “not racist”- we must be anti-racist. As a community, let’s stand up against systemic racism. Together, let’s honor our Black colleagues & lift up underrepresented voices. We are excited to celebrate Black Women in Security & Privacy on March 19, 2021--all day on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Salads. Movies. Our favorite cities. What do these things have to do with national security?   In this session, cybersecurity leaders Yolonda Smith, Ashley Tolbert, and Quiessence Phillips will discuss how they secure the things that we love, their thoughts on cyber defense and our nation's resilience amid ambient cyber conflict, and how to bridge the gap between trust and safety of products and services we use and our national security. 

Disclaimer: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

Using two recent cyber operations that targeted civilians, WannaCry and NotPetya, Tarah Wheeler and Lord John Alderdice will discuss their research which proposes these operations were violations of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, specifically Article 7: Crimes Against Humanity and Article 8: War Crimes. They will show the actual code from these cyber weapons, discuss the impacts on civilians, propose obeying international law, and tell you why there will never be a cyber Pearl Harbor.

Please note: While this virtual event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization.

Only a handful of countries are well known for their cyber impacts: notable, US, Israel, Iran, China, Russia and North Korea. But cyber visibility can give a misleading picture of actual cyber power. The full range of capabilities, objectives, and actors are often left out of the story. The Belfer Center’s Julia Voo, Anina Schwarzenbach, Irfan Hemani, Simon Jones, Winnona DeSombre and Daniel Cassidy have proposed a novel and more complete way to measure a country’s cyber power.

Belfer’s 2020 National Cyber Power Index looks at the cyber capabilities of 30 countries across seven national objectives such as surveillance, defense, intelligence gathering and destruction. It then measures a country’s capability within each objective. The team hope that through developing the NCPI the discussion of cyber power is broadened to reflect applications beyond destructive capabilities.

Join the Cyber Project on Tuesday February 9th as Julia and Anina walk us through their methodology and findings published in their groundbreaking National Cyber Power Index, which you can read here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/national-cyber-power-index-2020

The Cyber Project welcomes Dr. Sasha O'Connell, Tatyana Bolton, and Kiran Raj in conversation with Lauren Zabierek to analyze the National Cyber Director role.  Tatyana was a senior policy director for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Sasha and Kiran recently published their report, The United States Needs a Cyber Director: A Roadmap for Making It Happen in 2021.   

You can read their report here: https://www.american.edu/spa/upload/ncd-guide-final-oct-2020.pdf

You can access the Cyber Solarium Commission report here: https://www.solarium.gov/report

Please join the Cyber Project in welcoming leaders from the Cyber Solarium Commission to discuss their long-awaited report on a national comprehensive cyber strategy. We will have in discussion with us Mark Montgomery, the Executive Director of the Commission; John Costello, the Senior Director and Team Lead Task Force Two; and Robert Morgus, the Director for Research and Analysis Task Force Two. 

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) was established in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 to "develop a consensus on a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber attacks of significant consequences." The finished report was presented to the public on March 11, 2020.  

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission's proposes a strategy of layered cyber deterrence. The report consists of over 80 recommendations to implement the strategy. These recommendations are organized into 6 pillars:

Reform the U.S. Government's Structure and Organization for Cyberspace.

Strengthen Norms and Non-Military Tools.

Promote National Resilience.

Reshape the Cyber Ecosystem.

Operationalize Cybersecurity Collaboration with the Private Sector.

Preserve and Employ the Military Instrument of National Power.

The report can be found here: https://www.solarium.gov/

**This event will now take place via remote webinar; please RSVP to receive the webinar link**

Please join the Cyber Project in welcoming Sean Plankey, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response in the Department of Energy.  

Sean will discuss how the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) addresses the emerging threats of tomorrow while protecting the reliable flow of energy to Americans today by improving energy infrastructure security and supporting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national security mission. CESER’s focus is preparedness and response activities to natural and man-made threats, ensuring a stronger, more prosperous, and secure future for the Nation. 

**This event will take place via webinar; please RSVP to receive the webinar link**

In this webinar, Priscilla Moriuchi, a non-resident fellow at the Cyber Project and Head of Nation State Research at Recorded Future, will discuss nation-state disinformation campaigns and criminal disinformation-as-a-service offerings. She and her team at Recorded Future have produced several reports based on open-source intelligence collection and analysis, which have helped to shape our understanding of how global digital influence operations are evolving. Recently, she published analysis on Chinese and Russian state sponsored influence operations around the US elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, and will talk to changing tactics deployed by state and criminal actors.  

**Please RSVP for webinar link**

Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age. Tracing the conflict of wills and interests among modern nations, Buchanan reveals little-known details of how China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, and the United States hack one another in a relentless struggle for dominance. His analysis moves deftly from underseas cable taps to underground nuclear sabotage, from blackouts and data breaches to billion-dollar heists and election interference.

Buchanan brings to life this continuous cycle of espionage and deception, attack and counterattack, destabilization and retaliation. He explains why cyber attacks are far less destructive than we anticipated, far more pervasive, and much harder to prevent. The contest for geopolitical advantage has moved into cyberspace. The United States and its allies can no longer dominate the way they once did. The nation that hacks best will triumph.

**This event will now take place via remote webinar; please RSVP to receive the webinar link**

Please join the Cyber Project as we welcome Michelle Watson, expert on 5G telecommunications and security.  Please RVSP. 

5G technology lies at the center of the technological and industrial world that is taking shape. In essence, communications networks are not just for communications anymore. They are evolving into the central nervous system of the next generation of internet, called the "Industrial Internet.”

We see 5G emerging as more important for the technologies it will enable than the technology of 5G itself. However, there is a great deal of debate and confusion surrounding 5G today. What are the facts and what is propaganda? In our current geopolitical environment, governments, private sector and academic executives are all struggling to discern the best strategy to harness the benefits of 5G while avoiding the economic and security risks.

**To be conducted Remotely via Zoom--please contact Lauren Zabierek for Zoom Link**

We connect at least 127 digital devices to the Internet every second.  These products are prepackaged with exploitable weaknesses and have become the soft underbelly of government systems, critical infrastructures and services, as well as business and household operations. The resulting global cyber insecurity poses an increasing risk to public health, safety and prosperity.  Ms. Hathaway will discuss the challenges associated with this unique and strategic vulnerability—by  allowing poorly coded or engineered, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products to permeate and power every aspect of our connected society.  She will also discuss solutions and policy options.

The Cyber Project is excited to host the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) Executive Director, Yll Bajraktari, and the Commission’s Directors for Research and Analysis for a conversation on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on national security and defense.  RSVP required; a light breakfast will be served.

How the United States adopts AI will have profound ramifications for our immediate security, economic well-being, and position in the world.  The Commission’s Interim Report to Congress provides an initial assessment on AI’s relationship to national security, preliminary judgements on areas where the United States can do better, and suggests interim actions the government can take today.  The Commission looks forward to hearing from the Harvard community on the types of recommendations that must be considered to prepare for an AI future. 

Join the Cyber Project for a discussion with Oren J. Falkowitz, the CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA and USCYBERCOM official, who will discuss cybersecurity in the 2020 U.S. elections and what it takes to win in cyberspace.  Please RSVP, as lunch will be served. 

In this event, Mr. Oren J. Falkowitz, co-founder and CEO of Area 1 Security, the leading anti-phishing firm, will discuss lessons learned from launching offensive cyber campaigns on behalf of the U.S. Government and how the solution to cybersecurity is within our reach.

Despite billions of dollars spent on cybersecurity in the past decade, the results have yet to improve. Mr. Falkowitz will address how and why “cargo cult science” created a doom narrative that has become so embellished that we’ve lost our nerve to take action; what this means for the 2020 U.S. elections; and why accountability in cybersecurity is the solution.

Join the Cyber Project as we explore how the United States is “defending forward” against adversaries in cyberspace with its new operational strategy known as Persistent Engagement.

As a primer for our Special Discussion on Persistent Engagement, we're hosting Dr. Richard Harknett, who was one of the drafters of USCYBERCOM'S strategy for our lunchtime speaker series.  He'll walk us through the history and theory of the strategy and also discuss his thoughts on credible deterrence in cyberspace.

Trolls, Ghosts, and Spooks: Russia's Social and Media Manipulation Campaigns, 2014-2019

The IRA's "Russian playbook" for disinformation in the 2016 election is now widely known: spicy Jesus memes and fake Black Lives Matter pages. This talk discusses new research revealing a range of 'playbooks', run by a variety of entities, all attributed to Russia and active as recently as last month. It assesses disinformation campaigns along several axes: narrative vs memetic, long-term vs discrete, executed in service to goals ranging from distraction, to persuasion, to entrenchment. We will examine how information operations are deployed alongside, and in service to, more direct attacks such as spear phishing campaigns, media manipulation, and discuss emerging questions about how to think about the rapid evolution of state propaganda capabilities in the age of the internet.

In this discussion, Brigadier General "Loni" Anderson, Deputy Commander of Joint Task Force ARES at USCYBERCOM will discuss Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Cyberspace. 

To expand on what CVE means in cyberspace, Brig Gen Anderson was recently quoted saying, “When we don’t have drones or … we don’t have an actual task force or any other kinetic option, our only option to go in and get after these terrorists is going to be through non-kinetic means or through JTF-ARES.  With ISIS or really ISIS in any region, as we look at the possibility of U.S. forces even leaving, there’s opportunities for us at JTF-ARES.”

In this discussion, Allan Liska will discuss the Ransomware epidemic spreading across states, evolving targets and tactics, and the rise of the Ransomware As A Service market.

Please join the Belfer Center's Cyber Project for a discussion with Merrit Baer, the Principal Security Architect for Global Accounts at Amazon Web Services. 

In this discussion, Selena will walk us through the cyber threats to our nation's critical infrastructure, specifically the ICS/SCADA systems that control our electricity, water, and industrial grids.  She'll discuss the nature of the threats and how our society is responding to these threats.

Join the Directors of the Cyber Project and Defending Digital Democracy Project as they co-moderate a special event with Chris Krebs, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). 

Join the Cyber Project for a discussion with Lieutenant Colonel Woody Groton, Chief information Officer/G6 for the New Hampshire Army National Guard and Chair of the NH Information Technology Council, who will discuss the Guard’s role in protecting states from cyber attacks.

In this event, Dr. Christopher Ahlberg, co-founder and CEO of Recorded Future, one of the world’s leading threat-intelligence firms, will discuss AI and the role that private sector threat intelligence plays in protecting our nation from cyber threats.  Lunch will be served, RSVP required.

In this seminar, Alex Stamos, former Chief Security Officer at Facebook, will discuss some of our nation’s most pressing cyber issues with Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Please join the Cyber Project for one our lunchtime Cyber Speaker Series Events. Our guest this week is Hope Palmer, an Intelligence Analyst with the FBI Boston Field Office. 

RSVP required. Lunch will be served. 

Nand Mulchandani and Utsav Sohoni, both MC/MPA 2019 graduates, are offering this course for the second time to HKS students interested in cybersecurity and networking.  No experience or prior knowledge is necessary, but you must bring your own laptops and be present for the entire course.

-This event is now at capacity-

Join the Cyber Project in kicking off our lunchtime Cyber Speaker Series on Monday September 9th with Andrew Munchbach, Director at CrowdStrike.  Andrew will walk us through the current cyber threats facing our nation at a tactical level, from the nation state APTs to the cyber criminals and the tools, tactics, techniques, and procedures they're using. 

Lunch will be served.  The discussion will begin at 12:00.

Please join the Belfer Center's Cyber Project for an discussion with Richard A. Clarke, former Terrorism Czar and Cyber Czar to Three U.S. Presidents 

The Cybersecurity Project will host a seminar with Major General Hao Yeli (rtd.), Senior Advisor to the China Institute for International Strategic Studies (CIISS) on April 25th, 9:30-10:30 AM. Major General Hao is one of the few female leaders in the PLA, having previously served in 4PLA, and brings a unique perspective on China's cyber policy. Major General Hao will discuss her perspectives and experiences as a leader in this field. 

RSVP required. 

Join the Cybsercurity Project for a lunch seminar with Dr. Chris Demchak, US Naval War College’s Grace M. Hopper Chair of Cyber Security and Senior Cyber Scholar, Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI). Dr. Demchak will discuss the "Four Horsemen of AI–Cybered Conflict, Great Power Competition, and the Cyber Operational Resilience Alliance (CORA)."  

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis.

Join the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) for a seminar on recent student research. Bo Julie Crowley (MPP1), Casey Corcoran (MPP1/JD), and Raina Davis (MPP1) will present their new report, "Disinformation Threat Watch: The Disinformation Landscape in East Asia and Implications for US Policy." 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Allan Friedman, Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the US Department of Commerce. Dr. Friedman will discuss "Cybersecurity Policy without Regulation: Lessons from Promoting Resilience in a Vulnerable World."

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with JD Work, Bren Chair for Cyber Conflict and Security at the Marine Corps University, for a discussion on offensive cyber capabilities and sustaining offensive cyber capacity over time. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Cory Doctorow, Special Advisor to the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, on Digital Feudalism: The Technological Abolition of Private Property. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 

The Cyber Security Project will host a lunch with Chris Jay Hoofnagle, UC Berkeley School of Information and School of Law, on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's cybersecurity. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. All lunches are off the record. 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Ron Deibert, Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, for a discussion on Targeted Espionage Against Civil Society: Citizen Lab’s Tracking of a Growing Epidemic. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 
 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, on Resisting Law Enforcement’s Siren Song: A Call to Improve Trust and Security. 

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch with Finn Myrstad, Director of Digital Policy for the Norwegian Consumer Council, on "Consumer Threats in the Internet of Things. 

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cyber Security Project and the Intelligence Project for a lunch seminar with Vice Admiral Matthew Kohler, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare and the Director of Naval Intelligence.

Lunch provided on a first come, first served basis. Harvard ID required. 
 

Join the Cybersecurity Project for a lunch talk on "Limiting the Undesired Impact of Cyber Weapons" with Professor Susan Landau, Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University.

There has been much public rhetoric on the widespread devastation of cyber weapons. We show that contrary to the public perception – and statements from some political and military leaders– cyber weapons not only can be targeted, they have been used in just such a manner in recent years. We examine the technical requirements and policy implications of targeted cyberattacks, discussing which variables enable targeting and what level of situation-specific information is required for such attacks. We also consider technical and policy constraints on cyber weapons that would enable them to be targetable.

Lunch will be served on a first come, first served basis.

Join the Cyber Security Project for lunch with Ben Wizner, Director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. 

Lunch served on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cybersecurity Project for a lunch with Andy Ellis, Akamai's Chief Security Officer, on "Humans and Risk Management." 

Lunch will be served on a first come, first served basis. 

Join the Cyber Security Project for a lunch seminar with Andy Ellis, Akamai's Chief Security Officer. Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Joe Nye (University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus) will present his new paper, “Normative Restraints on Cyber Conflict.” Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Nadiya Kostyuk (Cyber Security Project Fellow) will present her recent paper, "Invisible Digital Front: Can Cyber Attacks Shape Battlefield Events."

Lisa Wiswell (Principal at GRIMM and advisor to HackerOne) and Alex Rice (founder and chief technology officer at HackerOne) will reflect on their public and private sector experience setting up the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program.

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis.

Siobhan MacDermott (Global Cyber Public Policy Executive at Bank of America), will give a talk, "Defending the Financial Sector from Cyber Attack." 

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

Chris Inglis (US Naval Academy Professor) will draw on his previous experience as Deputy Director of the National Security Agency to discuss a new Defense Science Board he co-chairs that examines cyber as a strategic capability.

Lt Gen (retired) Kevin McLaughlin will discuss his recent tenure as Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command. Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. 

**This event has been cancelled.

Lt Gen Bradford "BJ" Shwedo (Chief, Information Dominance, U.S. Air Force) will discuss how the Air Force operates in cyberspace. This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

John Hultquist, Director of Threat Intelligence at FireEye, will discuss commercial threat intelligence. This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School Professor) and Stuart Russell (Cyber Security Project Fellow) will preview their paper, "America's International Predicament in Cyberspace." This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join the Cybersecurity Project for a special event on the impacts of machine learning on cybersecurity. Sameer Bhalotra (StackRox) will moderate a discussion between Dan Chenok (IBM Center for the Business of Government), Tom Corn (VMWare), and  Jennifer Lin (Google). Seating will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

Please join us for a conversation with Ms. Alissa Starzak, Head of Public Policy for Cloudflare. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a conversation with Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, Jack Goldsmith. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a conversation with Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare and Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice Admiral Jan Tighe. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a conversation with April Doss, Senior Minority Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on technology reshaping privacy. Lunch will be served.*

Seating and lunch is open on a first come, first serve basis. 

The Cyber Security Project hosts a panel of experts on international perspectives on cyber power. 

Please join us for a conversation with the CEO of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, Mr. Ciaran Martin, on the economics of cybersecurity. Lunch will be served.*

Seating and lunch is open on a first come, first serve basis. 

Please join us for a conversation with former Director of the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate, Ms. Debbie Plunkett. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a conversation with Professor Isaac Ben-Israel.

Please join us for our first seminar event of the new semester, a conversation with the new Co-Director of the Belfer Center Eric Rosenbach. Lunch will be served.*

*This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Incoming Pre-Doctoral Fellow to the Cyber Security Project, Ms. Fiona Cunningham will discuss China's military cyber strategy in a moderated discussion with Dr. Michael Sulmeyer. 

This session is open to the public*, but will follow Chatham House Rule.

*Lunch and seating provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Note we are anticipating a full house, please arrive early.

Please join us for a discussion with Vice President and Deputy Director of In-Q-Tel (IQT) CosmiQ Works Ryan S. Lewis and Vice President and Deputy Director of IQT Lab41 Todd M. Stavish. IQT Labs and CosmiQ Works are dedicated to helping the U.S. Intelligence Community understand and leverage emerging commercial space capabilities against mission problems.

This event is open to the public*, but will be off the record following Chatham House Rule.

*Seating and lunch will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a discussion with Director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project Ben Wizner. This discussion will be moderated by Cyber Security Project Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy Bruce Schneier.

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a conversation with MG (ret.) John Davis on the Imperatives for Cybersecurity Success in the Digital Age.

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for a discussion with Professor Chris Hoofnagle on the Federal Trade Commission and Cyber. 

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please join us for an off the record conversation with Commander of the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), Rear Admiral T.J. White, who will discuss the operating environment of the CNMF at U.S. Cyber Command. 

While this event is open to the public*, it will follow Chatham House Rules.

*Seating and lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Senior Advisor to the Cyber Security Project Melissa Hathaway discusses what ought to be the top priorities for the Trump Administration when it comes to cybersecurity.

Cyber Security Project Director Dr. Michael Sulmeyer will lead a discussion with Co-Founder and Investing Partner of _Underscore.VC, Michael Skok on "The Business Side of Cybersecurity."

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Please join us for a panel discussion with Command Historian Dr. Michael Warner and Historian of GCHQ Professor Richard Aldrich, moderated by the International Security Program's Dr. Calder Walton and the Cyber Security Project's Director Dr. Michael Sulmeyer. This event is open to the public, but seating and admittance will be offered on a first come, first served basis.

Please join us for a talk with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney Amer S. Ahmed on how courts are delineating the permissible bounds of digital searches and clarifying who has the right to challenge them. 

Please join us for a conversation with Director of the Military and Security Studies Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Mr. Michael Eisenstadt, on "Iran's Approach to Cyber." Mr. Eisenstadt served for twenty-six years as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, which included stints in Iraq, Israel, The West Bank, Jordan, and Turkey, as well as deployments to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and U.S. Central Command headquarters.

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Cyber Security Project Director Dr. Michael Sulmeyer will lead a discussion with CEO and Co-Founder of Conjur, Inc. Elizabeth Lawler on "A Public Health Approach to Cybersecurity." Conjur, Inc., is a security company focusing on security for next generation infrastructure.

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be offered on a first come, first served basis.

Speakers: David Sanger, Dr. Fiona Hill, Dr. Michael Sulmeyer, Dr. Ben Buchanan.

Cyber Security Project Director Dr. Michael Sulmeyer will lead a discussion on the future of Russian Cyber Operations with New York Times National Security Correspondent David Sanger, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution Dr. Fiona Hill, and Cyber Security Project Fellow Dr. Ben Buchanan.

This event is open to the public, but seating will be on a first come - first served basis.

A talk with the former CEO of Symantec, Michael Brown

A talk with Founder and Managing Partner of Paladin Capital Group, Mike Steed.

A talk with Endgame CEO Nate Fick.

Cyber Security Project Director Michael Sulmeyer moderates a discussion on election hacking with CrowdStrike Inc. CEO and Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch, President of Verified Voting Pamela Smith, and Cyber Security Project Fellow Ben Buchanan 

A talk with retired Israel Defense Force Major General, Uzi Moscovici.

A talk with Microsoft Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy, Angela McKay.

A talk with Trey Herr and colleagues from the Cyber Security Project

The Homeland Security Project and Cyber Security Project invite you to a conversation with Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, to discuss the challenge of evolving to meet the next generation of cyber threats.

A talk with Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn

Jothy Rosenberg Ph.D., will discuss Draper Lab's approach to cybersecurity and the lastest cutting-edge research on "The First Inherently Secure Processor."

Robert Silvers, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy, will discuss DHS's leading role in responding to cyber attacks.

Houlin Zhao, Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will discuss the work of his organization. Professor Joseph Nye will moderate.

Please join us for the first cyber lunch of the year. Army Captain and former National Mission Force Team Leader Sally White will discuss cyber operations at the tactical edge.

Dr. Eviatar Matania, the head of Israel's National Cyber Bureau, will speak about Israel's cybersecurity challenges.

A workshop with Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technologist, to discuss his current project on security in the Internet-of-Things.

In a discussion moderated by John Deutsch, General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA, will speak about his new book.

A seminar with Greg Conti, founding Director of the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, to workshop chapters from his book on the military and cyber.

Join us for a special Cybersecurity Coalition Panel with Michael Sulmeyer, Jim Waldo, Ari Schwartz, Jenny Menna, Jeff Greene, Jen Ellis, and Christian Hamer. Panelists will examine the role of government and the private sector in protecting critical infrastructure cybersecurity.

Robert Metzger, Head of the Washington, D.C. office of Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, will discuss security challenges posed by the Internet of Things.

Amy Zegart, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, will give a talk on cyber threats.

Major General Richard Cripwell, UK Defence Attaché to the United States, will discuss cyber and the UK's Strategic Defence and Security Review

The Cyber Security Project, in conjunction with the Weatherhead Center's Program on U.S. - Japan relations and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will host a discussion with Adam Segal, Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations.

Please join us for a Nye Cyber Lunch on "The Creation of DARPA's Cyber Analytic Framework" with Peiter Zatko (aka Mudge), network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and hacker.

Dr. Michael Sulmeyer, Belfer Center Cyber Security Project Director, will lead a four-session study group: “Problem Solving in Cyberspace Operations.” The study group aims to equip graduate students interested in cybersecurity with the conceptual tools to succeed in public policy employment in the field.

Amid ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, on December 23, 2015 a portion of Ukraine's power grid was taken offline by a cyber attack.  This discussion aims to move beyond the headlines and get to ground truth about the nature of the attack and its implications going forward.

Space is limited so please RSVP at: http://goo.gl/forms/fL4vqGmFRu

Join the conversation using #CyberUkraine on Twitter.

A Cyber Operations Lunch with Ben Buchanan, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Join us for a small-group discussion with General Schmidle, who will share his observations about the evolution of cyberspace operations from his time as Deputy Commander of U.S. Cyber Command through his current assignment of overseeing all programs and investments for the Department of Defense.

Join Dan Meridor, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset, former Chairman of the committee which wrote the report on the Israel Defense Doctrine, and former Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, for the third and final session of the study group on Israel's Defense in the Changing Middle East.

Join Dan Meridor, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset, former Chairman of the committee which wrote the report on the Israel Defense Doctrine, and former Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, for the second session of the study group on Israel's Defense in the Changing Middle East.

Join Dan Meridor, former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset, former Chairman of the committee which wrote the report on the Israel Defense Doctrine, and former Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, for the first session of the study group on "Israel's Defense in the Changing Middle East."

DASD Hughes will describe the core challenges he and his office have confronted over the last six months. He also will discuss the ongoing implementation of the Defense Department's new Cyberspace Strategy, the offense/defense balance, and the opportunities for academia to provide conceptual development of how escalation control and deterrence operate in the cyber domain.

Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

General Nakasone will present his view of the operational environment he sees and confronts daily.  He will describe how his National Mission Force fits into this environment, as well as his thoughts on the future of cyberspace as an operational domain.  He will also describe the paramont importance that Cyber Command places on recruitment and retention to build the best workforce possible.

Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.