The Future of Cybersecurity and Trends in Technological Risk: Impacts for U.S. Foreign Policy and Politics
Jonathan Reiber

April 26, 2018

Global Internet access expanded rapidly since the Internet's invention, going from 14 million users in 1993 to over 3.8 billion today. Yet access expanded without a commensurate understanding of the Internet's security and political risks. Today criminal groups and nation-states use cyberspace operations to threaten national and economic security, from attacks on the Bangladesh Central Bank to Russia's operations against the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In this talk, Berkeley scholar and former Pentagon cyber strategy chief Jonathan Reiber will outline trends in cybersecurity and technological risk, and propose policy and security solutions to secure our digital future.

Jonathan Reiber is senior advisor at Technology for Global Security, a think-do tank based in Palo Alto, California, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, where he previously held a two-year writing and research senior fellowship. Jonathan is currently at work on a Smith Richardson Foundation funded study exploring the nature of public-private cyber defense cooperation during high-end contingencies with a near peer adversary. Prior to his appointments at Berkeley and Technology for Global Security, Jonathan held a number of positions in the Obama Administration within the U.S. Department of Defense. In his last position, he served as chief strategy officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he advised the Pentagon leadership and led initiatives across the cyber policy portfolio, to include strategic planning; key interagency and industry partnerships; and strategic communications.