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Russia’s Cyber Power: The Role of Non-State Hackers and Private-Sector Contractors
Speakers
Justin Sherman
Founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies
Date/Time
Thursday, October 31, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST
About the Lecture:
Russia’s Cyber Power: The Role of Non-State Hackers and Private-Sector Contractors: Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine has significantly impacted its cyber ecosystem and the strategy, policy, and operations affecting and carried out by a web of criminal hackers, military and intelligence officers, and private-sector cybersecurity firms and state contractors. These cyber activities and evolutions impact Russian citizens, the Russian state’s ability to launch offensive operations against Western powers, and the future of Moscow’s technology ecosystem. Justin Sherman will present strategic insights and new, tactical findings from a data and OSINT analysis of Russian cyber power during the Russia-Ukraine War and specific, non-state Russian cyber actors—including private-sector contractors and offensive capability developers—supporting the Kremlin.
About the Speaker:
Justin Sherman is the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm. They provide risk, research, advisory, training and simulation-building, and expert witness services on cybersecurity, data privacy, tech policy, supply chain, and geopolitics to nonprofits, startups, Fortune 1000 companies, law firms, investors, and the US government. Justin is also an adjunct professor at Duke University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and a contributing editor at Lawfare. He is also a fellow at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford University.
Justin has consulted for and advised everyone from CEOs and government officials to investors, attorneys, product managers, communications strategists, and threat intelligence teams, including in volatile, complex, and high-risk scenarios. Previously, he spent time at New America, the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law, among others, and was a fellow at Stanford University’s US-Russia Forum, where participated in Track II dialogues with Russian counterparts on international security issues. He has testified to both houses of Congress; spoken at the White House, the United Nations, and NATO; and briefed White House officials, members of European Parliament, and numerous other policymakers around the world. He has published hundreds of articles and numerous reports, previously wrote op-ed columns for WIRED and Slate, and has appeared on BBC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, SHOWTIME, and many other programs. Justin has written, researched, consulted, and spoken widely about Russia’s cyber, information, internet, and technology strategy, policy, and operations—and is sanctioned by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Computer Science and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.
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