The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Biography
Corinna Fehst was a Master in Public Policy 2018 candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Born in Germany, she also grew up in Spain and England. After graduating from her BA in Economics from the University of Oxford, she worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London for four years. During her time at BCG, Corinna was also seconded to the UK Cabinet Office Implementation Unit, working on critical infrastructure and energy policy implementation on behalf of Cabinet Ministers and the Prime Minister’s office. Corinna is interested in cybersecurity, in particular cybersecurity in a military context and critical infrastructure cybersecurity. She has spent the summer of 2017 at the German Ministry of Defense’s cybersecurity unit, working on international military cybersecurity cooperation.
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