This week we are joined by Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC and Hank J. Holland Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and author of the book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons. Herb shares his deep expertise in cyber policy and security to shed light on key questions that should be on everyone's mind, such as "Why are innovation and cybersecurity opposites" and "Why are we always behind in cybersecurity?". He also breaks down why complexity is the enemy of security, cyber war vs nuclear war, three roads to ruin, and the role of a Chief Luddite Officer. Prepare for your mind to be blown!

Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation

Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in the use of offensive operations in cyberspace as instruments of national policy and in the security dimensions of information warfare and influence operations on national security. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 2016, he served on President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.

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