From Battlefield to Boardroom: Assessing the Cyber War Frontlines - Jen Easterly on the New Era of Cyber Risk
Jen Easterly, Former Director of the US government's federal cyber agency (CISA), discusses cybersecurity as a national & economic security issue, AI's evolving influence, the critical infrastructure frontline, and asymmetric warfare.
We have had some extremely distinguished guests over the last 6 years, but we haven’t secured one who combines being a Rhodes Scholar, US Army Colonel, counter terrorist expert, leading the US’s cyber intelligence defence agency, and a lecturer at Oxford, whilst also having worked at Morgan Stanley, and now CEO at RSAC.
Jen plots a journey from Oxford to Westpoint, from Colonel of the US’s first Cyber Battalion to the Whitehouse, working under Condoleezza Rice and then chosen by President Biden to create CISA, The US’s first cyber defense agency.
In a whirlwind, world-wide tour, Jen plots the risks, defines the adversaries, reflects on intelligence, cooperation, and the real and present cyber risks to industries.
She offers advice to boards, the existential risks for businesses who think this is just a “technology issue” and leaves us with a stark observation: if the cost of annual cybercrimes were aggregated into one number, it would be equivalent in GDP terms to being the third largest economy in the world!
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