Presented at
Black Hat USA 2014,
Aug. 7, 2014, 10:15 a.m.
(60 minutes)
Imagine that twenty years after Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanical movable type, the Pope and the petty princes - in fact, anyone who tried hard enough - had the ability to determine exactly who was printing exactly what. Worrying about intellectual property theft, privacy or civil rights violations, had those concepts existed, would be missing the point.
The future of Europe, the future of humanity, would have been profoundly changed, not just for five years but five hundred. If people lost trust in the underlying communication medium, could there even have been a Renaissance or Enlightenment?
Unfortunately, the world is facing this dilemma today as it is possible, even likely, the Internet will not remain as resilient, free, secure, and as awesome, for future generations as it has been for ours. It is under grave threat from data breaches, theft of commercial secrets, the opportunity for widespread disruptive attacks and systemic failures, erection of sovereign borders, and mass surveillance.
The only truly goal for this new cyber strategy should be to give the defenders the high-ground advantage over attackers. This is just imaginable with a clever push for new technology, policy, and practice which is applied patiently, internationally, at scale, and with the private sector at the fore.
This talk will discuss these threats to the Internet and novel approaches to sidestep much of the current unproductive debate over privacy versus security.
Presenters:
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Jason Healey
- Atlantic Council
Jason Healey is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, focusing on international cooperation, competition and conflict in cyberspace, and the editor of the first history of conflict in cyberspace, A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012. He has worked cyber issues since the 1990s and is the only person to be both a policy director at the White House and a review board member of the infamous DEF CON global hacker conference. During his time in the White House, he was a director for cyber policy and helped advise the President and coordinate US efforts to secure US cyberspace and critical infrastructure. He has also been executive director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and New York, vice chairman of the FS-ISAC (the information sharing and security organization for the finance sector) and a US Air Force intelligence officer having worked at the Pentagon and National Security Agency. Jason was a founding member (plankholder) of the first cyber command in the world, the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, in 1998. He is a board member of Cyber Conflict Studies Association, lecturer in cyber policy at Georgetown University, lecturer of cyber national security studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and author of dozens of published essays and papers.
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