On September 28, 2017, the New York Cyber Task Force released a series of recommendations that would help make it easier to defend cyberspace without sacrificing the utility, flexibility, and convenience that has made the Internet so essential to our economies and personal lives. At this Washington, DC launch event, the task force members discussed the report’s groundbreaking findings and recommendations for a more defensible cyberspace.

The members of the New York Cyber Task Force started from the basic premise that we need to give cyber defenders the advantage over attackers by developing a strategy based on leverage: those innovations across technology, operational, and policy domains, which grant the greatest advantage to the defender while being cost-effective. Using this standard, the task force developed a number of key recommendations to unlock a safer cyberspace. The Task Force included 30 senior-level experts, counting among its members finance and cybersecurity executives, former government officials, and leading academics. The panel included Jason Healey, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative; Greg Rattray of JP Morgan Chase and senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative; Katheryn Rosen, adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative; and Merit E. Janow, the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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