This Does Not Compute

Jody Westby is the CEO of Global Cyber Risk, where she regularly consults with governments and private sector executives, and operational personnel on the development of enterprise security programs. Prior to forming Global Cyber Risk, Ms. Westby served as senior managing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), specializing in outsourcing and cyber security/privacy issues. Ms. Westby has recently co-authored and edited the book “The Quest for Cyber Peace”. This book was also written by Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of the ITU, and members of the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security.

Dan Paltiel and Will Carter of CSIS speak with Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, about the USCG’s new Cyber Strategy, released at CSIS. The strategy outlines the Coast Guard’s plan to work with industry to protect critical infrastructure and treat cyberspace as an operational domain.

Will Carter and Dan Paltiel of CSIS speak with Andres Kütt, Architect and Adviser for the Estonian Information System's Authority (EISA), and Liina Areng, Head of International Relations for EISA, about Estonia’s modern system of digital governance and its implications for cybersecurity and privacy.

Dan Paltiel and Will Carter of CSIS speak with Martin Libicki and Scott Harold of the RAND Corporation about their recent trip to China, where they interviewed Chinese officials and experts about potential areas where progress can be made in U.S.-China cyber relations.

Sean O’Keefe, former NASA Administrator, and General James Cartwright, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speak with Will Carter, CSIS Strategic Technologies Program Research Associate about the challenges ahead for U.S. civil and military space, including the growing role of commercial entities and of foreign competitors.

CSIS Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Strategic Technologies Program Denise Zheng, speaks with Michael Chui and Sokwoo Rhee about opportunities for economic growth and the role of government in enabling the Internet of Things. Michael Chui is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute and Sokwoo Rhee is Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

CSIS senior fellow and Deputy Director of the Strategic Technologies Program, Denise Zheng, talks with Marty Edwards about the "Industrial Internet of Things". Marty Edwards is the Director of the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) at the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. Department of Defense discussed cyber deterrence for the first time in a non-classified forum in a 2011 report to Congress. In the same report, the Pentagon publicly acknowledged that it has offensive cyber capabilities. Since then, there has been much discussion about the topic and the need to strike a careful balance. Assistant Secretary of Defense Eric Rosenbach spoke at CSIS on October 2, 2014 about how the Department of Defense thinks about deterrence, including efforts to more clearly communicate intentions in cyberspace. This podcast is an excerpt from his speech.

This CSIS podcast series, funded by FireEye, interviews cybersecurity experts from different sectors to explore the effectiveness of cyber red lines and the different roles the government and private sectors have in cybersecurity policy. Dr. John Mulvenon is Vice President of Defense Group, Inc. Intelligence Division and Director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. He is a specialist on the Chinese Military and cyberwarfare, having testified before Congress on the issue. He received his Ph.D. from University of California at Berkley in Political Science.