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Social Engineering in Cybersecurity: The Evolution of a Concept

Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

 

You are cordially invited to a lecture on the topic of 

Social Engineering in Cybersecurity:
The Evolution of a Concept

with
Lieutenant Commander Joseph M. Hatfield
Assistant Professor, Department of Cyber Science, U.S. Naval Academy

Tuesday, September 12
4:30 PM 

The Institute of World Politics
1521 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C.
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This event is sponsored by IWP’s Cyber Intelligence Initiative.

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About the lecture

Social engineering (also called “Human Hacking”) is an essential tool in every computer hacker’s toolkit. Yet its origins extend long before the digital age. This talk explores the evolution of this concept from its origins in public policy to its current application to cybersecurity. Dr. Hatfield’s research includes interviews with famous hackers and offers a framework within which social engineering attacks can best be understood.

About the speaker

Lieutenant Commander Joseph M. Hatfield currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cyber Science at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he teaches courses on the technical fundamentals of cybersecurity, the ethics and policy of cyber operations, and intelligence and national security. He is an active-duty naval intelligence officer with over a decade of overseas operational experience, including combat tours aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as overseas assignments in both England and Sicily. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University and has published scholarly work in journals and book chapters.