To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Andrew is a computer engineer with over 15-years of experience in computer security and related competencies. For the past five years, he's worked as an engineer and engineering manager at CrowdStrike; watching the company grow from just over 100 to well 1,000 employees. Prior to CrowdStrike, Andrew worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Apple, Inc.
The Belfer Center's Cyber Project uses an interdisciplinary approach to tackle some of the most pressing questions in how the complex patchwork of federal government organizations, state and local governments, and private sector protect our infrastructure, institutions, governments, and public from cyberattacks from a spectrum of threats. This year, the project has a key focus: cybersecurity is national security.
CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch (a member of the Defending Digital Democracy Project Board) to combine the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks.