Join us for a series of discussions with experts from industry, law enforcement, and government on how the recent passage of the CLOUD Act will reshape how U.S. and other law enforcement agencies can access cross-border data to conduct investigations. 

9:00 AM        Coffee & light refreshments

9:30 AM        Panel I: US Warrants for Data, Conflict of Laws and Comity Analysis in the aftermath of the CLOUD Act

Sandra Moser, David Bitkower, Alexander Berengaut, Kelly Hagedorn 

10:30 am      Panel II: Future of Cross-border Law Enforcement Cooperation

Additional speakers to be announced.

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

Building effective cyber defenses is a major challenge for defense planners, just as missile defense has been since the original Strategic Defense Initiative. In both realms the offense has the advantage, making effective defense difficult. Missile defense, however, now has several decades of experience producing and fielding new technologies. Are there lessons to be learned — or avoided?

The Project on Military and Diplomatic History will host a panel discussion of CSIS experts on the history of missile defense, its experience in developing new technologies, and what these tell us about the challenges for building effective cyber defenses. The session will include a briefing by U.S. Army Captain James Torrence on his award-winning essay “Cyber Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative”.

This event was made possible by donations in support of the Project on Military and Diplomatic History.

Russian efforts to sow discord in democratic societies have leveraged traditional covert and clandestine tools, military confrontation, and new technologies such as social media platforms, to shape political events beyond their borders. This approach is low cost, seemingly low risk, and has been more successful than Russian leaders could have imagined.  Responding to these tactics requires some kind of response if we are to change Russian behavior. Join us for a public discussion of what are the options are for responding to Russian activities. Speakers will discuss what tools the U.S. government has at its disposal to impose consequences and combat Russian encroachment.

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.

This event will coincide with the release of a new CSIS/McAfee report on the state of cybercrime in 2018. This is the third report on the cost of cybercrime that CSIS has done with McAfee (“The Economic Impact of Cybercrime,” 2013, and “Net Losses,” 2014). Our latest report finds that cybercrime is relentless, undiminished, and unlikely to stop. Join us for a discussion on the report findings, trends and challenges related to the proliferation of cybercrime, and what governments, industry, and technology users can do to deter cyber criminals and improve the security of the ecosystem.

A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 8:00 a.m. The discussion will begin at 8:30 a.m.

This event is made possible with support from McAfee Inc.

Please join the Freeman Chair for an exciting presentation by Georgia State University's Maria Repnikova, who will share with us the ways in which the Chinese party-state has adapted to the latest media technology environment and has changed not only the content of its message but the means by which it reaches its audiences. Professor Repnikova will put these developments in larger context and share illustrative examples from the Chinese media. Kaiser Kuo, a veteran of China’s media and pop culture, will then offer his insights and offer some ideas for further discussion. Freeman Chair Christopher K. Johnson will moderate the event.

The China Reality Check Series presents perspectives from academia, industry, and government in order to promote a sustained dialogue on critical and insufficiently understood issues related to China's reemergence as a global power.