RSI Connect: Understanding the Russian Way of Cyberwarfare
Date: March 10th, 2022 at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
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RSI will host an expert panel to discuss Russian thought and use of offensive cyber effects as a tool of warfare. Panelists include Dmitri Alperovitch, Scott Jasper, and Andrei Soldatov.
Biographies
Andrei Soldatov
Title: Nonresident Senior Fellow Affiliation: Center for European Policy Analysis
Andrei Soldatov is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis. Andrei is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999.
Soldatov is co-author with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (PublicAffairs, 2015), and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, 2019).
Scott Jasper, CAPT, USN (ret)
Title: Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs Department Affiliation: Naval Postgraduate School
Scott Jasper, CAPT, USN (ret), is a Senior Lecturer at the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, specializing in defense strategy, hybrid warfare, and cyber policy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Reading, U.K.
He is the author of Russian Cyber Operations: Coding the Boundaries of Conflict (Georgetown University Press), Strategic Cyber Deterrence: The Active Cyber Defense Option (Rowman and Littlefield), and editor of several books on international security. Scott has published articles in Strategic Studies Quarterly, Signal Magazine, The National Interest, and Small Wars Journal, among others.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Title: Co-Founder and Chairman Affiliation: Silverado Policy Accelerator
Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a non-profit focused on advancing American prosperity and global leadership in the 21st century and beyond. He is also the founder of the Alperovitch Institute for CyberSecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Dmitri is a renowned cybersecurity visionary and business executive, co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., the world’s largest cybersecurity company. He has served as a special advisor to the Department of Defense and is a frequent strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of Directors of public and private companies. Dmitri has published extensively on cybersecurity policy and testified before committees in the US Senate and House.