June 7th Keynote - Day 1
"International Cyber Conflicts and Development of Global Cyber Norms"
State-sponsored cyber campaigns have been an element of international conflicts for decades, but the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended many assumptions and prior established patterns about how countries typically use cyber capabilities in the context of such conflicts. This talk will consider prior examples of Russian cyberattacks in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine, and then focus on the uses of cyber capabilities by Russia, Ukraine, and other countries and private companies over the course of the ongoing conflict and consider the ways in which these stakeholders have diverged from previous examples of cyber conflict. Finally, we'll consider the progress towards developing cyber norms through international forums since the early 2000s, and what lessons we can draw about cyberattacks and cyber conflict more broadly from this history, as well as how we can continue to update our ideas about the potential and risks of cyber capabilities for impacting international conflict.
Josephine Wolff
Josephine Wolff is an associate professor of cybersecurity policy and has been at The Fletcher School at Tufts University since 2019. Her research interests include liability for cybersecurity incidents, international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, cybersecurity workforce development, and the economics of information security. Her first book "You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches" was published by MIT Press in 2018. Her second book "Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks" will be published by MIT Press in 2022. Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Prior to joining Fletcher, she was an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
June 8th Keynote - Day 2
"Cyber Threat Landscape with FBI Albany"
FBI will discuss the evolution of cyber threats affecting the region and how the return to work after COVID has created new attack surfaces.
Roderick Link has served as one of FBI Albany Division's subject matter experts on digital forensics, cryptanalysis, network, memory and malware analysis in support of FBI operations and computer intrusion investigations. His recent major deployments include combating the 2020 SunBurst backdoor at US federal agencies and tracking and containing attackers accessing SuperBowl 2020 infrastructure.