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Tech at the Leading Edge

Mar 3, 2023

How will the US counter cyber threats? Our experts mark up the National Cybersecurity Strategy

By Maia Hamin, Trey Herr, Will Loomis, Emma Schroeder, and Stewart Scott

On March 2, the White House released the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy. Read along with CSI staff, fellows, and experts for commentary on the document and its relationship with larger cybersecurity policy issues.

Cybersecurity Technology & Innovation

Elections 2020

Sep 24, 2020

Five big questions as America votes: Cybersecurity

By Cyber Statecraft Initiative

With the next US presidential election looming, the next administration will face no shortage of substantive cyber policy issues. US adversaries such as China and Russia continue to undermine and fracture the free and open internet, while the technology ecosystem has been altered by the rapid adoption of cloud computing, placing immense power and responsibility in the hands of few technology giants, such as Amazon and Microsoft.

Cybersecurity Elections

New Atlanticist

Feb 25, 2020

The 5×5—The evolution of the internet and geopolitics

By Simon Handler

The internet has been a pivotal force behind the growth of the global digital economy and altered the relationship among states, their citizens, and the private sector. These changes have disrupted the geopolitical balance of power and ushered in a new generation of globally-powerful multinational companies. However, new dynamics of conflict are threatening the internet as we know it.

Cybersecurity Internet

Jeff Moss was a nonresident senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) at the Atlantic Council. He is the founder and creator of both the Black Hat Briefings and DEF CON, two of the most influential information security conferences in the world, attracting over ten thousand people from around the world to learn the latest in security technology from those researchers who create it. DEF CON just had its twenty-seventh anniversary.

Moss previously worked as the chief security officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit whose responsibilities include coordinating and ensuring the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet’s unique global identifiers such as IP address allocations, AS and protocol numbers, and digitally signing and maintaining the root zone of the Internet. This position involved extensive international travel and coordination with governments, law enforcement, and operational security communities.

Prior to this, Moss was a director at Secure Computing Corporation where he helped establish their Professional Services Department in the United States, Asia, and Australia. His primary work was security assessments of large multi-national corporations. Moss has also worked for Ernst & Young, LLP in their Information System Security division. Because of this background, Moss is uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between the underground researcher community and law enforcement, between the worlds of pure research and the responsible application of disclosure.

He is currently a member of the US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), providing advice and recommendations to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on matters related to homeland security. Mr. Moss is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.