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Cyber Security

Cybersecurity threats exist across individuals, firms, and nations. Its domains span software, the internet, and even space. Traditionally dominant powers like the United States are uniquely vulnerable.

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Bytes, Bombs, and Spies
January 15, 2019 By Herbert Lin, Amy Zegart,

via Books by Hoover Fellows

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Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
October 19, 2021 By Herbert Lin,

via Stanford University Press

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Essays

“Defend Forward” And Sovereignty

This essay argues that the discrete rules articulated in the commentary accompanying Rule 4 of the Tallinn Manual 2.0 regarding state sovereignty in cyberspace do not reflect customary…

April 29, 2021 By Jack Goldsmith, Alex Loomis,

via Aegis Paper Series

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Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches To Cyberspace
December 1, 2020 Edited By Jacquelyn Schneider, Emily O. Goldman , Michael Warner,

via U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons

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Amy Zegart

Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow
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Amy Zegart

Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow

Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She specializes in US intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, grand strategy, and global political risk management.  The author of five books, Zegart has applied her award-winning research to the bestseller Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Princeton, 2022); Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations (Brookings, 2019), coedited with Herb Lin; Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (Twelve, 2018), coauthored with Condoleezza Rice; and the leading academic study of intelligence failures before 9/11, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton 2007). Her op-eds and essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Politico, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and elsewhere.  At Hoover, Zegart serves as the director of the Robert and Marion Oster National Security Affairs fellows program and cochair, with John Taylor, of the Technology, Economics, and Governance Working Group. She has been featured by the National Journal as one of the ten most influential experts in intelligence reform. She served on the Clinton administration’s National Security Council staff and as a foreign policy adviser to the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. She has also testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and advises senior officials on intelligence, homeland security, and cybersecurity matters. Previously, Zegart served as codirector of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, founding codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program, and chief academic officer of the Hoover Institution. Before coming to Stanford, she was professor of public policy at UCLA and a McKinsey & Company consultant. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Dissertation Prize, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Hewlett Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Zegart received an AB in East Asian studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MA and a PhD in political science from Stanford University. She serves on the board of directors of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) and the Capital Group.

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John Villasenor

Senior Fellow (adjunct)
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John Villasenor

Senior Fellow (adjunct)

John Villasenor is a senior fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and is also on the faculty at UCLA, where he is a professor of electrical engineering, public policy, law, and management. Villasenor’s work considers the technology, policy, and legal issues arising from key technology trends, including the growth of artificial intelligence and the increasing complexity and interdependence of today’s networks and systems. He has published in the Atlantic, Billboard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, the Washington Post, and many academic journals. He has also provided congressional testimony on multiple occasions on topics including privacy and intellectual property law. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Villasenor was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed methods of imaging the earth from space. He holds a BS from the University of Virginia and an MS and PhD from Stanford University. Villasenor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford.

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