Robert Knake

Robert K. Knakeis an international affairs fellow in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations studying cyber war. He is currently working on a Council Special Report on internet governance and security. Prior to his fellowship, he was a principal at Good Harbor Consulting, a security strategy consulting firm with offices in Washington, DC; Boston, MA; and Abu Dhabi, UAE, where he served domestic and foreign clients on cybersecurity and homeland security projects. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Rob coordinated the Counter-Terrorism Task Force for the Obama campaign and served on the Homeland Security Task Force. Following the election of President Obama, he served on the presidential transition team at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and authored the agency review team's final report. Rob joined Good Harbor after earning his MA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has written extensively on cybersecurity, counterterrorism and homeland security issues. In 2006, he directed, with Steven Simon, the Century Foundation Task Force report "The Forgotten Homeland." He is co-author (with Richard Clarke) of Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It (HarperCollins, April 2010). Joseph Menn covers cyber-security and other technology issues for the Financial Times, after a decade on the same beat for the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of 2003's All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award, the top prize in business reporting.

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