“The Potential of Cybersecurity”, a discussion with Melissa Hathaway, who served as a senior cybersecurity adviser to equally President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, major a significant Cyberspace Coverage Critique for the latter.
With mounting frequency of cyber-assaults, this sort of as facts breaches and services disruptions, governments across the globe are employing initiatives to regulate and manage the online and its infrastructure. More and more, these states are also advocating for the establishment of voluntary norms of conduct in cyberspace. For these norms to correctly counter cybersecurity threats and ensure long run basic safety of the internet, however, world-wide cooperation among governments, corporations, and other applicable actors becomes important.
Ms Hathaway joins UNU Centre for Coverage Analysis Director Sebastian von Einsiedel for a dialogue inspecting the present landscape of cybersecurity, and to explore how a consensus on a framework for universal norms can be obtained in the digital age.
About the speaker
Melissa Hathaway is a foremost expert in cyberspace coverage and cybersecurity. She served in two US presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Plan Evaluate for President Barack Obama, and primary the Extensive National Cybersecurity Initiative for President George W. Bush. She is presently President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC, and Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Middle for Science and Intercontinental Affairs. She has previously served as a strategic advisor and board member for numerous public and private organizations and non-profit organisations.
Ms Hathaway is a graduate of American College (United states) and the Joint Forces Staff University (United states of america).
