Presented at
DEF CON 29 (2021),
Aug. 7, 2021, 6 p.m.
(45 minutes)
As if 2020 and 2021 were not bad enough, the Covid-19 pandemic seemed to have been accompanied by a new rash of bad cyber- attacks on major platforms like Solarwinds and Microsoft, infrastructures worldwide subverted in ransomware campaigns, and even the very organizations researching and fighting the pandemic have been hit.
Meanwhile, the hard work of cyber diplomacy continues, with talks on war and peace in the United Nations reaching a new stage as two working groups presented their final report and a third one is in the process of being born. Mostly the topics are on establishing norms on cyber behavior, rules of the road of what states can do in cyberspace. But where are the hackers in all this? The Internet is famously not run by intergovernmental organizations, so the companies, civil society groups and others should somehow be involved - and one of the UN processes did in fact make a small step in that direction. But the staid ways of pin-striped cyber are hard to change. What is the best way for the community to engage?
Presenters:
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Lauren Zabierek
- Harvard Belfer Cyber Project
Lauren Zabierek is the Executive Director of the Cyber Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. She comes to this role as a 2019 graduate of the Kennedy School's mid-career MPA program. Lauren served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force at the beginning of her career. Later, as a civilian intelligence analyst with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) assigned to the Office of Counterterrorism, she completed three war zone deployments. Throughout her six years at NGA, she became a subject matter expert on Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and served as an adjunct professor in ABI at the NGA college. After leaving NGA, she joined the cybersecurity threat intelligence startup Recorded Future, and was instrumental in building its Public Sector business practice.
A Gold Star Sister, Lauren is committed to supporting families of the fallen and has volunteered several times as a mentor with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). She also co-founded the Recorded Future Women's Mentorship Initiative, helped to start a women's initiative at NGA, is a member of the NatSecGirlSquad, and is the co-founder of the online social media movement called #ShareTheMicInCyber, which aims to dismantle racism in cybersecurity and privacy.
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Alexander Klimburg
- DEF CON Policy Dept, Panel Moderator
Alexander Klimburg is a cyber policy wonk, infosec geek, and free Internet advocate. The director of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, he is also a director at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and a senior-associate of the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously he held positions and affiliations with Harvard University and the Atlantic Council. Since around 2010 Alex has been trying to mediate between the policy and technical world, with marginal success, having previously spent too much time in consulting and dot-bomb venture capital. He has accompanied the diplomatic work on cyber norms at the UN and OSCE, helped draft national cyber security strategies and relevant legislation for several governments, and has advised on the set-up and operation of national cybersecurity centers and infosec practices. Alex has been responsible for some of the world's most important track 1.5. diplomatic discussions and occasionally gets to opine on offensive cyber effect operations and TTPs. Hobbies include supporting cybercrime investigations, tutoring on basic infosec practices, and helping lead the DEF CON Policy department. He is the author of several publications, including the critically acclaimed "The Darkening Web" published 2017 by Penguin Press.
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Bill "Woody" Woodcock
- Chair of the Foundation Council, Quad9, Packet Clearing House
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Sheetal Kumar
- Global Partners Digital (VIRTUAL)
Sheetal currently provides strategic oversight for a global cybersecurity capacity building programme which supports civil society organisations from the global South to protect and promote human rights in cybersecurity and cybercrime related discussions. She also facilitates civil society engagement in key relevant forums, including the UN, through research, facilitation and coordination support on a day-to-day basis.
Sheetal holds an MSc in Media, Communications and Development from the London School of Economics and an MA in International Relations with French from the University of St Andrews. Her studies included global internet and communications policy, the evolution of the internet, communication for development, media in the global South and more broadly, theories relating to power, media and communications and technology.
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Maarten Van Horenbeeck
- Forum of Incident Responders and Security Teams (VIRTUAL)
Maarten a former Board Member and Chairman of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a non-profit association of 530 security teams in 96 countries. He is also Lead Expert to the UN Internet Governance Forum's Best Practices Forum on Cybersecurity, and works as Chief Information Security Officer at Zendesk.
Maarten has over 15 years of experience managing security organizations, which includes building the cybersecurity threat intelligence team at Amazon and work on the Security teams at Google and Microsoft. He holds a master's degree in information security from Edith Cowan University and a master's degree in international relations from the Freie Universitat Berlin.
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Chris Painter
- Global Forum of Cyber Expertise, Former head of US cyber diplomacy
Chris Painter is a globally recognized leader and expert on cybersecurity and cyber policy, cyber diplomacy and combatting cybercrime. He is the President of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation, serves on the Board of the Center for Internet Security, is a non-resident Senior Advisor at the CSIS, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and is on the Public Sector Advisory Board for Palo Alto Networks. He was also a co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force and a Commissioner on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Chris has been on the vanguard of U.S. and international cyber issues for over thirty years. In his most recent government role as Coordinator for Cyber Issues ((2011-2017) in the State Department, he coordinated and led the United States' diplomatic efforts to advance an open, interoperable, secure and reliable Internet and information infrastructure. Prior to joining the State Department, Mr. Painter served in the White House as Senior Director for Cyber Policy in the National Security Council. He was a senior member of the team that conducted the President's Cyberspace Policy Review in 2009.
Among other distinctions, Chris received The Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan for promoting U.S-Japan cyber cooperation in 2018 and received the Order of Terra Mariana from the President of Estonia in 2020 for promoting cyber cooperation. He is also the recipient of the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Public Policy (2016), the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service, and the Intelligence Community Legal Award (2008).
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