The Challenge of Cybersecurity Today

The election of 2016, attacks on US and other government infrastructure, relentless circulation of misinformation in Europe and the ransomware epidemic have made the threat to cyber systems dramatically apparent. A leading architect of Israel’s cyber policies addresses an array of global threats and the steps needed to counter them.

Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, Tel Aviv University, Head of Security Studies, former director of Research and Development at the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Major General in the Israeli Reserves

Response: Rand Beers ’64, former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

September 13  |  4:30pm  |  041 Haldeman Center  |  Free and open to all. 

Co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS), and the Thayer School of Engineering.