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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Eric Rosenbach, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy at the Department of Defense, in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
On October 11th, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed the previously classified details behind the devastating malware attack last August that crippled the Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco’s computers.
According to Eric Rosenbach, DoD had information on the attack declassified to show private U.S. companies that the cyber threat landscape had suffered a tectonic shift. “Aramco was a foreshadowing,” he said on a panel discussion at the SINET D.C. Showcase on October 25th in Washington, D.C. “It marked a change. It showed more [cyber] hygiene was needed. Several thousand U.S. companies had similar hygiene,” he said.
Since September 2011, Rosenbach has been the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, formulating, recommending, integrating, and implementing policies and strategies to improve DoD's ability to operate in cyberspace. He is perfectly suited to the position having recently led the global cybersecurity practice at Good Harbor Consulting; run by former special adviser to the president on cybersecurity Richard Clarke. Rosenbach was also previously Executive Director for Research of the Belfer Center.
While at the Belfer Center, Rosenbach taught classes on cybersecurity and counterterrorism policy and co-directed a joint Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology project on international cybersecurity policy. Rosenbach was selected Faculty Advisor of the Year in 2010. Prior to his work at Harvard, Rosenbach served as national security advisor for Senator Chuck Hagel and as a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Rosenbach also served for several years as an Army intelligence officer in Europe, where he provided communications intelligence in direct support of commanders in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Rosenbach has co-authored and co-edited several books on national security issues, including Find, Fix, Finish, published this year, which details how America learned to counter terrorists in ever more lethally incisive operations.
Rosenbach was a Fulbright Scholar. He holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown, Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College.
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