Abstract: When President Obama approved the "Olympic Games'' cyber attacks on Iran, he told aides that he was worried about what would happen when nations around the world began to use destructive...

Abstract: Any given computer or network runs code from an enormous number of sources, including the producer of the operating system, the hardware, built-in and user-installed applications,...

Abstract: The first Snowden disclosure was that Verizon was providing daily updates of telephony metadata to the NSA.

Abstract: Senior policy makers often talk as though cyber conflict poses the same kind of existential threat as does nuclear conflict.

Abstract: With the development of cyber capabilities by an increasing number of states, policymakers as well as scholars have been calling for the negotiation of a new international treaty to...

Drell Lecture Recording: NA     Drell Lecture Transcript: NA   Speaker's Biography: Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005.

About the Topic: Air, sea, land, and space are the traditional domains of military operations. Now, as the Information Age unfolds, cyberspace has become the fifth domain.

ABOUT THE TOPIC: In his talk, Jack Goldsmith will explain why he is skeptical about significant cybersecurity cooperation among military rivals, especially at the treaty level.

International agreements are often criticized for expressing lofty values or regulatory goals without doing very much to achieve those values or goals.

Why do users make such poor decisions about computer security and privacy? What can we do about it?