CYBERSECURITY FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative is Pleased to Announce its First Round of National Cybersecurity Fellows
Washington,
DC – New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative is pleased to
announce its first ever round of National Cybersecurity Fellows. To augment the Initiative’s in-house
expertise, New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative have established a yearlong New America Cybersecurity Fellows Network
of 16 Fellows. The focus of the fellowship is to take a multi-disciplinary
approach to cybersecurity and is designed to bring “new voices” to the policy
conversation while fostering “big ideas” and new perspectives. The first
tranche of fellows will each write a policy paper centered around a single big
idea. The 2015-16 National Cybersecurity Fellows and topics are:
Robert Bateman: Lessons from Military
History
Robert
Bateman’s last
assignment was as the Deputy Chief of Plans in the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
in the UK where he coordinated long and mid-term planning for the whole
headquarters. As an adjunct professor, Bateman has also taught
military history at the United States Military Academy, George Mason
University, and the Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Studies at Georgetown University.
Bateman is a prolific writer; he was a freelancer for Esquire Magazine and
has authored over 300 print and major national website articles as well as two
books. He spent twenty-five years as a military officer in the US Army and
has been stationed in places from Hawaii to Iraq, to Egypt and Afghanistan. He
earned a B.A. from the University of Delaware, an M.A. in history from Ohio
State University and is a distinguished graduate in international security
studies from NATO Defense College in Rome.
Elana Broitman:
Cybersecurity Legislation and the Private Sector
Elana
Broitman served
as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Manufacturing &
Industrial Base Policy in the Department of Defense and as a Senior Advisor to
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), having spent time in a technology company,
with prior service as Counsel to the House International Relations Committee.
Elana’s work focuses on cybersecurity, the defense industrial base, and foreign
affairs. She is a graduate of Trinity University and The University of Texas
School of Law and speaks both Russian and German.
Kendall Burman: Cyber Sanctions Executive
Order
Kendall Burman is
a New America Cybersecurity Fellow who previously served as the Deputy General
Counsel for Strategic Initiatives in the Department of Commerce. Before that
she was a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Democracy and
Technology where she examined issues at the intersection of civil liberties,
national security, and technology. Burman joined the White House in 2009 after
having worked as the Chief Staff Counsel on Obama’s first presidential
campaign. As an Associate White House Counsel and Special Assistant to the
President, her policy portfolio included science and
technology, open government, and intellectual property. Prior to this position, she was a
litigation associate at Latham & Watkins, LLP. Burman is a graduate
of Bowdoin College and received her J.D. from the University of Chicago where
she was an editor of the law
review.
Adam Elkus: Artificial Intelligence in
Cybersecurity
Adam Elkus is
a Ph.D. student in Computational Social Science at George Mason University. He
also currently serves as a Technology Research Analyst for Crucial Point, LLC
and as a columnist at War on the Rocks. Adam’s work has been
published in Slate, Foreign Policy, Armed Forces Journal, and other
publications. He holds a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental
College and a M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University. Adam’s
research interests are in computational modeling of adversarial decision
behavior with multi-agent system models.
Dr. Matthew H. Fleming: Board-level
Cybersecurity Decision-making
Dr. Matthew H. Fleming currently leads the
cybersecurity resilience program of a large financial services firm in the
United States. He joined the firm from the Homeland Security Studies and
Analysis Institute, a federally funded research and development center; a
member of its senior leadership team, he managed the institute’s cybersecurity
portfolio. Prior to the institute, for several years he directed a number of
defense-industrial-base-related cybersecurity workstreams within the U.S. Department
of Defense. An occasional consultant to the International Monetary Fund, where
he worked earlier in his career on issues of financial crime control and
foreign exchange regimes, Fleming is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown
University, where he teaches courses on risk management and strategy for the
McCourt School of Public Policy, and net assessment and cybersecurity for the
McDonough School of Business. Fleming is currently a nonresident national
cybersecurity fellow with New America, a nonresident senior fellow with the GW
Center for Cyber & Homeland Security, a senior cybersecurity advisor to the
Tech Council of Maryland, and an advisor to the Washington Cyber Roundtable; he
has previously served on project teams and expert groups for the World Economic
Forum, President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee,
U.S. Department of Defense, and Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in the UK, among
others. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of London
(University College London); a Master of Public Policy from the University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor); and a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University.
Captain Mark Hagerott, PhD.: The Cyber
Revolution and the Education Gap
Capt.
Mark Hagerott, Ph.D., is the Chancellor Elect of the North
Dakota University System. He is also the Co-Lead for the Study of “Autonomy and
Battle Space Awareness” for the Defense Science Board. Previously, Hagerott
spent many years in the Navy as a nuclear engineer and ship commander. He also
worked as a White House fellow and held posts in the Pentagon before working at
the U.S. Naval Academy. He is now the Deputy Director and Distinguished
Professor of Cyber Operations and Policy at the Center for Cyber Studies at the
Naval Academy. Hagerott has received numerous awards for his work and is widely
published in various news outlets. He is a graduate of the United States Naval
Academy and holds an M.A. in Economics and Politics from Oxford University
where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Hagerott also earned a Ph.D. in Science and
Technology Studies from the University of Maryland.
Drew Herrick: State-State Cyber Incidents
Drew
Herrick is a Political Science Ph.D. candidate specializing in
international relations and research methods at George Washington University.
Herrick is a 2015 RAND Summer Associate and a Nonresident Fellow at New
America. His research focuses on bridging the gap between academics,
technologists, and policymakers by applying theory, technical knowledge, and
advanced methodologies to policy-relevant problems. Previously, Herrick worked
as a Research Associate at The Meson Center for International Security Studies
and Political Risk Consultant. He is a graduate of Ohio State University and
holds an M.A. from George Washington University.
Jason Hong: Human Computer Interaction –
Usability & Cybersecurity
Jason
Hong is an Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the CTO of Wombat Security
Technologies, a company he co-founded in 2008 to deliver software-based cyber
security awareness and training solutions for companies seeking to educate
their employees. Jason’s research focuses primarily on usable privacy and
security and mobile computing. He is also the author of Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Websites (Prentice
Hall, 2007). Jason is a graduate
of the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kendall Hoyt: Preserving the Common –
Insights from Biosecurity
Kendall
Hoyt is an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine
at Dartmouth where she studies U.S. biodefense policy and biomedical R&D
strategy. She is also a lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
College where she teaches a course on technology and biosecurity. She is the
author of Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense, Harvard University Press,
2012. She serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the
Department of Defense’s Programs to Counter Biological Threats
and on the advisory board of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at
Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Hoyt received her Ph.D. in the History and
Social Study of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2002 and was a Fellow in the International Security Program at
the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government from 2002-2004.
Prior to obtaining her degree, she worked in the International Security
and International Affairs division of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, the Washington DC office of McKinsey and Company, and the
Center for the Management of Innovation and Technology at the National
University of Singapore.
Patrick Lin, PhD.: The Moral Case for
Hacking Back
Patrick
Lin, Ph.D., is the director of Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is an
associate philosophy professor. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School,
University of Notre Dame, and Australia’s CAPPE. Previously, he held academic
appointments at Stanford’s School of Engineering, US Naval Academy, and
Dartmouth College. Dr. Lin is well
published in the realm of the ethics of emerging technologies such as robotics,
cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, human enhancements, nanotechnology, and
more—with particular focus on their implications for national security. He has
provided briefings and counsel to the US Department of Defense, CIA, United Nations,
International Committee of the Red Cross, National Research Council, Google,
and others. Phil earned his BA from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. from UC Santa
Barbra.
Katie Moussouris: The Market for
Vulnerabilities
Katie Moussouris
is the
Chief Policy Officer for HackerOne, a platform provider for coordinated
vulnerability response and structured bounty programs. She is a noted authority
on vulnerability disclosure and advises lawmakers, customers, and researchers
to legitimize and promote security research to help make the Internet safer.
Katie serves as a subject matter expert for the US National Body of the
International Standards Organization (ISO) in vuln disclosure (29147), vuln
handling processes (30111), and secure development (27034). Katie is a visiting
scholar with MIT Sloan School, doing research on the vulnerability economy and
exploit market. Prior to her position at HackerOne, Katie served as the Senior
Security Strategist for Microsoft. At Microsoft, Katie founded industry-leading
initiatives such as the creation of Microsoft’s vulnerabilities bounty
programs. These programs resulted in the discovery of numerous vulnerabilities
and new attack techniques to protect the entire platform. Katie is an ex-hacker
and a seasoned security spokesperson having appeared on the Engadget show, in
numerous print media, and numerous audio and visual media. In 2011, Katie
received the Executive Women’s Forum Women of Influence Award in the category
of One to Watch.
Harvey Rishikof: Cyber Insurance
Harvey Rishikof is a Senior Counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Privacy & Cybersecurity
and Governments Contracts group in Washington, D.C. He specializes in national
security, civil and military courts, terrorism, international law, civil liberties,
and constitutional law. Prior to joining the firm, Rishikof was the dean of
faculty at the National War College and former chair of the department of
National Strategy, legal counsel to the deputy director of the FBI, federal law
clerk to Leonard I. Garth (Third Circuit), and AA to the Chief Justice of the
United States. He also previously served as dean of Roger Williams
University School of Law. Throughout his career, Rishikof has served on
numerous committees and held multiple positions in government focusing on
cybersecurity investigations. Most recently, he was the senior policy advisor
to the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX), the agency responsible
for counterintelligence and insider threat management across the federal
government. He is a graduate of McGill University and earned an M.A. from
Brandeis University, an M.A. from National War College, and a J.D. from New
York Law School.
Molly Sauter: The Future of Hacktivism
Molly Sauter is
currently a Vanier Scholar and Ph.D. student at McGill University. Her
research broadly focuses on hacker culture, digital activism, internet law and
regulation, and depictions of technology in the media. Sauter is also a
research affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
and at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab. She is the
author of The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil
Disobedience on the Internet, published by Bloomsbury, which is an analysis
of the history and development of activist distributed denial of service actions.
Sauter is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and holds an M.Sc in
Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Peter Swire: The Future of Secrets
Peter
Swire is currently the Huang Professor of Law and Ethics in the Scheller
College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as a
Senior Counsel to the law firm of Alston & Bird, LLP. Swire has been a
leading privacy and Internet scholar since the rise of the Internet in the
1990s. In 2013, Peter served as one of the five members of President Obama’s
Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. He was also the
Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy from 2009 to 2010.
Previously, under President Clinton, Swire was the Chief Counselor for Privacy
in the Office of Management and Budget. He has lectured extensively on privacy
and security issues and is the author of six books, numerous scholarly papers,
and op-eds in various national news outlets. Swire graduated from Princeton
University and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an editor of the
Yale Law Journal.
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Ward: Acquisition,
Technology Development, Innovation
Lieutenant
Colonel Dan Ward (USAF, ret) is the author of F.I.R.E.: How Fast,
Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation (Harper
Business, 2014) and The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide To Making
Things Better Without Making Them Worse (Harper Business, 2015). He
recently launched a consultancy to help clients reduce the cost, time, and
complexity associated with innovation. Previously Dan served as an Air Force
acquisition officer for more than 20 years, where he specialized in leading
high-speed, low-cost technology development programs and helped establish the
Air Force Research Laboratory’s rapid innovation process. He has been featured
in publications from the White House, the US Senate, and the British
Parliament. His own writing has appeared in outlets such as Forbes, The Boston Globe, Armed
Forces Journal, Time Magazine’s Battleland
Blog, the Pakistani Army’s magazine, Hilal,
and the British Army Yearbook. Dan holds three engineering degrees and
received the Bronze Star Medal for his service at NATO Headquarters
in Afghanistan.
David Weinstein: Cybersecurity at the
State Level
Dave
Weinstein is currently serving as New Jersey’s first Cybersecurity
Advisor. Weinstein previously spent three years with the US Cyber Command,
where his portfolio covered cybersecurity operations, policy, and planning.
Following his time at Cyber Command, he became a Senior Consultant at Deloitte
Consulting, LLP, helping commercial clients manage their cyber risk. In 2014,
Forbes Magazine recognized Dave as a “top cyber-policy expert.” His work has
been featured in numerous publications, including the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, CNN.com,
and The Boston Globe. Weinstein is a
graduate of Johns Hopkins University and earned a Master’s degree from
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.