Are we winning? – Jason Healey – PSW #822
Jason Healey comes on the show to discuss new ideas on whether the new national cybersecurity strategy is working.
Segment Resources:
- DEFRAG Hacker Film Festival short documentary (https://youtu.be/NYvHWcQsIRE) on hackers and their favorite films. For educational purposes only, as we don’t have the rights to the clips.
- YouTube link to Wargames event with Jen Easterly, Matt Devost, Amelia Koran and Kevin Huyck (head of ops for NORAD) (https://youtu.be/iqx6STDYJ7c?si=73WQtSG4RnCGsBcT).
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/which-cyber-regulations-fit-which-sectors
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-cybersecurity-strategy-breaking-a-50-year-losing-streak
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/twenty-five-years-of-white-house-cyber-policies
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/understanding-offenses-systemwide-advantage-cyberspace
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Guest
Jason Healey is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs and a part-time senior strategist at the National Risk Management Center at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Prior to this, he founded the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he created the global “Cyber 9/12” student cyber-policy competition. He has twice worked cyber issues in the White House, including as a founding member of the Office of the National Cyber Director. He has taught and mentored hundreds of students who have gone onto careers at the White House, the finance sectors, civil society, and everywhere in between. He is the editor of the first history of conflict in cyberspace, A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012 and helped create the world’s first cyber command in 1998, the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, where he was one of the pioneers of cyber threat intelligence. He served as the vice chair of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), created Goldman Sachs’ first cyber incident response team, and later oversaw the bank’s crisis management and business continuity in Asia. He is a founding member and past president of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association and is a review board member of the DEF CON and Black Hat security conferences.