Being a good cyber defender means more than possessing the technical expertise – it means being a good communicator, and being capable of devising effective policies to address rapidly developing crises. As the cyber threat grows in size and complexity, NATO needs these experts more than ever.

NATO’s Deputy Head of Cyber Defence, Chelsey Slack, recently helped judge the Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge, co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Atlantic Council in Geneva, Switzerland. In this video, Slack explains why encouraging and cultivating well-rounded cyber defenders today is necessary for protecting the Alliance’s networks in the future.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

In the wake of disruptive ransomware attacks and escalating tensions worldwide, the need for greater security, efficiency, and confidence in cyberspace has never been more urgent. To discuss these issues, inaugural National Cyber Director Chris Inglis visited NYU Law for a keynote address and fireside chat hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Director Inglis addressed the state of cyber policy today and the need for a “Cyber Social Contract” that realigns risks and responsibilities between public and private actors in cyberspace.

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CyCon 2022’s central theme is Keep Moving! If taken figuratively, the discussion will revolve around challenges posed by constant evolution of technologies and threats, and ways of formulating and coordinating our response. In the literary sense, we are interested in cyber security of transportation and supply chain, military mobility or autonomous technologies and automation.

The International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon, has entered its second decade. Throughout the years, CyCon has established itself as a prominent multidisciplinary conference, introducing keynotes and panels focusing on the technical, legal, policy, strategy and military perspectives of cyber defence and security. This is undoubtedly thanks to the amount of high-quality original academic research presented at the conference.
CyCon 2021 Going Viral took place virtually due to the pandemic. The first fully virtual edition of CyCon drew over 800 viewers from 57 countries.

In 2020, despite having to cancel the physical conference, the Academic Review Committee selected 19 articles to be presented at a virtual book launch and published in the proceedings.

Each year, more than 600 decision-makers, opinion-leaders, law and technology experts from the governments, military, academia and industry of nearly 50 countries meet at CyCon to address current cyber security challenges in an interdisciplinary manner. Over two and a half days, experts approach the conference’s key themes in keynote speeches, plenaries, focused sessions and breakout discussions. CyCon’s workshops allow for in-depth discussions on specific topics related to technology and malware development, education and training issues, legal aspects, etc., or provide practical hands-on training.
As a longstanding tradition the opening address of the event was made by the Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid. Other keynote speakers included Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, David van Weel, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. Keynote speakers also included experts from companies leading innovation in cybersecurity, such as Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, Philip Quade, Chief Information Security Officer at Fortinet, Casper Klynge, Microsoft’s Vice President for European Government Affairs and Massimo Tedeschi, Chief Technology Officer at Leonardo. CyCon 2021 also saw a launch of CCDCOE new book on autonomous cyber capabilities under international law. This new edited volume converges the parallel conversations on the application of international law to cyber operations and to autonomous (military) systems.

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in cooperation with King’s College London and William & Mary organised a virtual launch of a new e-volume ‘Cyber Threats and NATO 2030: Horizon Scanning and Analysis’ on 12 January 2021. Full book is available under Library on the website of CCDCOE.

This recording of the event features the following speakers in order of appearance:

• Intro by Piret Pernik, CCDCOE Strategy Researcher
• Opening remarks by COL Jaak Tarien, Director, CCDCOE
• Keynote speech by David van Weel, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
• SESSION I Cyber Domain, New Technologies and NATO’s Response
Moderator: Dr Anthony Stefanidis, William & Mary
Speakers:
Franz-Stefan Gady, IISS
Jacopo Bellasio, RAND Europe
Dr Simona R. Soare, EUISS
• SESSION II Cyber Conflict, Adversaries and NATO’s Response
Moderator: Dr Tim Stevens, King’s College London
Speakers:
Prof. Martin C. Libicki, US Naval Academy
Bilyana Lilly, RAND Corp.
Sally Daultrey, Adenium Group Ltd.
Prof. Chon Abraham, William & Mary
• CLOSING REMARKS by Prof. Stephen Hanson, Vice Provost for International Affairs, William & Mary

Key insights from the event are also available on CCDCOE website www.ccdcoe.org