Science & Technology

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Falling Walls Circle Table

Video - Falling Walls Foundation

Science in a Multilateral World

    Authors:
  • Jan-Martin Wiarda
  • Andrei Fursenko
  • Wan Gang
  • Annette Schavan
| Nov. 08, 2020

What can science and science policy do to jointly overcome the pandemic and other crises for a prospective future of the global society? What is the best case scenario for the dialogue between politics and science? How can science succeed as a diplomacy of trust? These are some of the questions this discussion will seek to answer.

Henry Farrell, Karen Brinson Bell, and Bruce Schneier

Video - SNF Agora Institute

Election 2020 — Securing the Vote

| Oct. 16, 2020

The 2020 election is happening amidst unprecedented disagreement about election security, as the coronavirus pandemic challenges traditional in-person voting. On the one hand, the incumbent president claims that postal voting will lead to widespread electoral fraud. On the other, Democrats argue that the U.S. postal system is being deliberately degraded to make it less likely that mailed ballots will be counted in time. Both political scientists who work on voting, and information security specialists, who think systematically about the failure modes, attack surfaces, and threat models of large information systems, can help us understand—and mitigate—the likely failures of large-scale voting systems operating under unexpected circumstances in a context of increased fear over manipulation.

CYBERSEC 2016: Interview with Melissa Hathaway

News - Cyber Security Project, Belfer Center

CYBERSEC 2016: Interview with Melissa Hathaway

| October 19, 2016

Melissa Hathaway participated in the European Security Forum's Cyber Security Conference 2016 in Krakow Poland. This conference is one of just a few regular public policy conferences devoted to the strategic issues of cyberspace and cybersecurity in Europe. She presented key elements of the Cyber Readiness Index 2.0 and discussed areas for better private-public cooperation.

Peiter Zatko (aka Mudge), Robert M. Lee, and Michael Sulmeyer of Harvard University's Belfer Center's Cyber Security Project an event at Harvard to discuss the recent cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid.

Melanie Stetson Freeman/CS Monitor

News - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Cyber Operations Against Ukraine's Grid

Feb. 04, 2016

Director Michael Sulmeyer of the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs welcomed industry experts Robert Lee, CEO of Dragos Security and former U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer, and Mudge, founder of the Cyber Independent Testing Laboratory, with previous experience as a DoD official for DARPA and Deputy Director of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Division, to get to ground truth on this attack and its implications.

As it Grows, Al Jazeera Risks Losing Touch

Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

As it Grows, Al Jazeera Risks Losing Touch

| December 13, 2012

"...[A]s the Arab Spring continues past a single season, Al Jazeera's very success is revealing some of its vulnerabilities. Its power has others wanting in on the action. As the movement towards democratic reform becomes more pervasive, the network's ownership by a conservative monarchy has become its Achilles' heel. The emir of Qatar recently placed a member of the royal family as director-general of news on Al Jazeera, a reminder to its staff of who pays the bills. In a region where conspiracy theories are rampant, the network's ownership makes it a target for reformers who feel it's mainly catering to the existing power structure."

Cyber Security Today: A United States Perspective

Presentation

Cyber Security Today: A United States Perspective

| September 19, 2012

Implementing complementary government and private sector cyber protection policies remains a challenge. In a recent International Relations and Security Network/Center for Security Studies–sponsored presentation, Explorations in Cyber International Relations Senior Advisor Melissa Hathaway identified five major reasons why governments and their partners are still having trouble developing effective cyber security strategies.