Cybersecurity and Cyber Freedom: The Future of Digital Surveillance Technology


The Brookings Institution
Monday, February 14, 2011
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0214_cybersecurity.aspx

Advances in communications technologies have enabled countless new opportunities for business growth, and have increased the ability of citizens and advocacy groups to promote change in this country and across the globe. At the same time, criminals and terrorists can use Internet technologies to organize and expand their operations. Internet-based platforms have also become a new target for cyber attacks and espionage as business and government use increases. While information technology allows law enforcement and national security organizations new levels of surveillance in the fight against malicious actors, these systems bring their own risks to both online freedom and cybersecurity.

Experts will discuss the arms race between those seeking to monitor online behavior, and those they wish to track. Building on the debate in the late 1990s over the legalization of cryptography, the discussion will explore how old surveillance paradigms fit with new technologies. Cybersecurity expert Susan Landau will deliver a keynote address.

Featured Speaker
Susan Landau
Fellow
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Panelists

Moderator: Allan A. Friedman
Fellow, Governance Studies

Stewart A. Baker
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Susan Landau
Fellow
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study