Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know...and How to Talk About It

Brookings Institution
January 6, 2014
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
http://www.brookings.edu/events/2014/01/06-cybersecurity-cyberwar-what-e...

Cyber issues have not only dominated recent headlines, but they have more broadly evolved from a technology matter into an area that we all need to understand. To put it another way, cybersecurity and cyberwar has shifted from a “need to know” issue into one everyone needs to know more about, whether working in academics, politics, business, the military or law, or even just as good citizens or parents.

On January 6, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and Governance Studies at Brookings will launch the new book Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. The first panel will feature co-authors Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman discussing their book and the key questions of cybersecurity – how it all works, why it all matters and what we can do. A second panel will then feature some of the leading journalists on the cybersecurity beat today, exploring the challenges of reporting on a new domain and explaining its complexities to the public.

Following the panel discussions, participants will take questions from the audience. This event will be webcast live.

Join the conversation on Twitter using #cyberbook.

Panel I: What Everyone Needs to Know

Moderator: Noah Shachtman
Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

Peter W. Singer
Co-author, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
Director and Senior Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

Allan Friedman
Co-author, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
Visiting Scholar, Cyber Security Policy Research Institute, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, George Washington University

Panel II: How To Talk About Cyber

Moderator: Noah Shachtman
Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

James Ball
Special Projects Editor
The Guardian

Tom Gjelten
Correspondent
NPR

Siobhan Gorman
Intelligence Reporter
The Wall Street Journal

David Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent
The New York Times