Cybersecurity represents one of the most pressing challenges that the United States will face in the coming decades. Ensuring continued economic prosperity and defense readiness requires improving the security of the computing devices, systems, and networks that have become essential to the nation’s commerce and defense. Moreover, the United States has at its disposal powerful offensive capabilities in cyberspace—how can and should it use these capabilities in support of national interests? These and other cyber issues are important, complex, and here to stay.
This course will integrate multiple perspectives and disciplines and provide an understanding of the underpinnings of cybersecurity and how they fit together, the nature of cybersecurity threats, various approaches to address these threats, and the use of offensive cyber capabilities to advance national interests. Preparing for the future, the course also endeavors to give congressional staffers a conceptual framework to understand the threat environment of today and how it might evolve so that they are better able to anticipate the problems of tomorrow.
Download Event Program
Read Program Overview
CyberSecurity Boot Camp Schedule
|
|
Monday, August 18 |
Tuesday, August 19 |
Wednesday, August 20 |
|
5:30am-8:30am |
|
7:15: Staffers depart Stanford Guest House for Hoover Institution 7:45: Breakfast and Debrief Previous Day |
7:15: Staffers depart Stanford Guest House for Hoover Institution 7:45: Breakfast and Debrief Previous Day |
|
8:30am-10:00am |
|
Session 5: Fundamental Principles of Cybersecurity |
Session 8: Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick, Benjamin Wittes |
|
10:00am-10:15am |
|
Break |
Break |
|
10:15am-12:00pm |
11:30: Staffers arrive at Stanford University 11:45: Welcome & Framing Session Dr. Amy Zegart, Prof. John Villasenor |
10:15: Session 6: Economic, Psychological, and Organizational Dimensions of Cybersecurity Prof. Tyler Moore, Prof. Gross Stein, Paul Rosenzweig 11:45: Break |
10:15: Session 9: Corporate Perspectives on Cybersecurity Scott Charney, Melody Hildebrandt, David Liddle, Ellen Richey, Raj Shah 11:45: Break |
|
12:00pm-1:00pm |
Lunch and Keynote Address Dr. Jane Holl Lute, Prof. John Villasenor |
Lunch and Keynote Conversation Dr. John Hennessy, Larry Kramer |
Lunch and Keynote Address Joe Sullivan |
|
1:00pm-2:00pm |
Session 1: Security as a Concept |
Lunch and Keynote Speakers, continued 1:30: Break |
Lunch and Keynote, continued 1:30: Break |
|
2:00pm-3:00pm |
2:30: Break 2:45: Session 2: Threats to Cybersecurity |
Session 7: Domestic and International Law Prof. Orin Kerr, Prof. Matthew Waxman, Lynn St Amour |
2:00: Depart for Google Headquarters 2:30: Arrive Google Headquarters |
|
3:00pm-4:30pm |
Session 2, continued 4:15: Break |
3:45: Staffers return to Stanford Guest House |
Google Headquarters, continued |
|
4:30pm-6:00pm |
Session 3: Offensive Dimensions of Cybersecurity (Dinner served during presentation) |
Staffers at Stanford Guest House 5:30: Staffers return to Hoover Institution |
Google Headquarters, continued 5:30: Dinner |
|
6:00pm-8:15pm |
6:00: Break 6:15: Session 4: Simulation Dr. Lucas Kello |
Dinner and Keynote Address Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Eric Schmidt |
Dinner, continued |
|
8:15pm-9:15pm |
9:15: Staffers return to Stanford Guest House |
8:30: Staffers return to Stanford Guest House |
8:30: Staffers return to Stanford Guest House |
Stanford, Hoover and CISAC will be tweeting throughout the event at #StanfordCyber. Their Twitter handles are @Stanford, @HooverInst and @StanfordCISAC.
The three-day boot camp is closed to the public, though media are invited to two events. The first is a keynote conversation between Stanford President John Hennessy and Larry Kramer, president of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and former dean of Stanford Law School. They will discuss the cybersecurity landscape and how universities and foundations can drive innovative research, teaching and policy solutions. Reporters may also attend a panel discussion about corporate perspectives on cybersecurity, which will include Charney, Richey, Hildebrandt, Liddle and Shah.
The Aug. 19 keynote address will be held at 12 p.m. at the Stauffer Auditorium of the Hoover Institution and the Aug. 20 session on corporate cybersecurity will be held at 10:15 a.m. in the Annenberg Hall at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
