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Cybersecurity

Scholarly Publications

Integrating offensive cyber capabilities: meaning, dilemmas, and assessment

August 2018

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Across the world, states are establishing military cyber commands or similar units to develop offensive cyber capabilities.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner

June 2017

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This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.

An Approach for Identifying and Analyzing Implicit Interactions in Distributed Systems

March 2017

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Jason A. Jaskolka, John Villasenor
Safety-critical system domains such as critical infrastructures, aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturing and control are becoming increasingly dependent on the use of distributed...
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Other Publications

Andrew Grotto Testimony on "Cybersecurity and California Elections"

March 2018

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To assess the threat to California's elections systems, the Assembly and Senate elections committees held a joint informational hearing on cybersecurity. The hearing discussed steps California...

How to build NERC CIP compliance: a new course by the SANS Institute

June 2016

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This post is a review of a five-day NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) training being offered by the SANS institute.

Risk in Cyber Systems

December 2015

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Currently, significant uncertainty surrounds cyber security investments.
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News

FSI scholars join high-level commission on democracy in the digital age

October 2018

The Kofi Annan Foundation has tapped four Stanford scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) to help advance one of its top priorities: to shed light on the rapidly...

Cybersecurity: Media Roundtable Eyes Threats

October 2018

 Whether it’s foreign government meddling or corporate hacking, every day brings a new challenge in cybersecurity for the United States, said experts at a recent Hoover Institution media roundtable...

How the U.S. Has Failed to Protect the 2018 Election--and Four Ways to Protect 2020

August 2018

In the swirl of news this week, it would be easy to miss recent announcements from two of America's largest and most influential technology companies that have implications for our democracy as a...
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Events

The Consequences of Technological Developments for Politics and Government

April 17, 2018

The Consequences of Technological Developments for Politics and GovernmentTuesday, April 24, 2018Reception at 5:00pm.

Cyberspace, Information Strategy, and International Security - Marina Kaljurand and Elaine Korzak

February 22, 2018

Please join us for an informal discussion on with Marina Kaljurand and Elaine Korzak: Monday February 26th3:30-4:30pmEncina E207 (Reuben Hills Conference Room) This discussion will cover how...

Cyber-Enabled Information Warfare and the End of the Enlightenment

December 18, 2017

Abstract: The West has no peer competitors in conventional military power.  But its adversaries are increasingly turning to asymmetric methods for engaging in conflict.  Cyber-enabled information...
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Projects

Critical Infrastructure Resilience

The Critical Infrastructure Initiative builds the cyber-resilience of critical infrastructure through methodologically diverse outputs-oriented research and engagement with end users and homeland...
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Science Seminar Series

The CISAC Science Seminar Series features speakers who present scientific subjects with international security and policy implications.
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Multimedia

Cybersecurity Strategies

May 2018

In a world of increasingly sophisticated hackers, continual phishing attacks, and bots created to sabotage civil public discourse, what can individuals, organizations, and nations do to protect themselves? In this video, Dr.

Cybersecurity

May 2018

Data breaches. Malware. Theft of corporate secrets. Hacking of elections. As the world’s information has moved more and more online, so have the world’s crime, terrorists, and clandestine operations.

How will Michael Flynn's resignation affect US-Russia relations?

February 2017

Russia expert and Stanford University senior fellow Kathryn Stoner on Russian reaction to the national security adviser's resignation. Watch the video here.
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People

Harold Trinkunas Harold Trinkunas Deputy Director, Senior Research Scholar
Andrew Grotto Andrew Grotto Research Scholar, Lecturer
Thomas Fingar Fellow
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science
Eileen Donahoe Adjunct Professor, CDDRL
Alex Stamos Adjunct Professor William J. Perry Fellow
Herb Lin Herbert Lin Senior Research Scholar
Nathaniel Persily Professor, Stanford Law School
Dan Boneh Dan Boneh Co-director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative
Jan Rydzak Research Scholar Research Scholar and Associate Director for Program, GDPi
Gregory Falco Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Smeets Max Smeets Postdoctoral Fellow