Project Connect: Understanding the Russian Way of Cyberwarfare

March 10th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
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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

Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and Chairman, 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. In 2021, he launched the Alperovitch Institute for CyberSecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a premier academic institution producing paradigm shifting, impactful research and instruction at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, intelligence and international affairs. He is a Co-Founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike Inc., world’s largest cybersecurity company. A renowned cybersecurity visionary and business executive, Alperovitch is a thought-leader on cybersecurity strategy and state tradecraft and has served as special advisor to the Department of Defense. He is a frequent strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of Directors of public and private companies. Alperovitch is also an active angel investor and board member of multiple high-growth technology companies. In 2016, Alperovitch revealed Russian intelligence agencies' hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), events which unveiled the full scope of cyber influence operations being launched against the 2016 US Election. In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking Chinese cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named Alperovitch as one of “40 Under 40” most influential young people in business. In 2016, Politico Magazine featured Alperovitch as one of “Politico 50” influential thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics. In 2013, Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being selected as MIT Technology Review’s “Young Innovators under 35” (TR35), an award previously won by such technology luminaries as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Jonathan Ive. Alperovitch was named Foreign Policy Magazine’s Leading Global Thinker for 2013, an award shared with Secretary of State John Kerry, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. He was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security in 2011 and recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian’s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity. Alperovitch is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy Project. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards for NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), George Mason University’s National Security Institute and RSA Conference. He has previous served on Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) Industry Advisory Board. Prior to founding CrowdStrike, Dmitri was a Vice President of Threat Research at McAfee, where he led company’s global Internet threat intelligence analysis and investigations. With more than two decades of experience in the field of information security, Alperovitch is an inventor of 36 patented technologies and has conducted extensive research on reputation systems, spam detection, web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware and intrusion detection and prevention. As a recognized authority on cyberespionage, cyber warfare, online organized criminal activity, and cybersecurity, Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject matter expert with all levels of U.S. and international policy makers, intelligence and law enforcement agencies on analysis, investigations, and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities and cyber threats from terrorist and nation-state adversaries. He is a well-respected technical and policy thinker on the most difficult global cybersecurity issues, and is a frequent speaker at military, intelligence, law-enforcement, academic and security industry conferences. Alperovitch has published and given numerous talks on the contemporary issues in cybersecurity policy such as cyberdeterrence doctrine, Chinese-sponsored cyberespionage and the use of cyber weapons on the future battlefield. Alperovitch is frequently quoted as a cyberpolicy and cybersecurity expert source in national media, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation and PBS Frontline. His writings have been published by the The New York Times, The Washington Post and Foreign Affairs Magazine and he has testified before committees in the US Senate and House. Prior to joining McAfee, Alperovitch led the research team and the Cloud Security business unit at Secure Computing. Alperovitch holds a master's degree in Information Security and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.

	Scott Jasper, CAPT, USN (ret) Senior Lecturer, National Security Affairs Department 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 Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons, Securing Freedom in the Global Commons, and Transforming Defense Capabilities: New Approaches for International Security. Scott has published chapters in various handbooks related to cybersecurity and articles in Strategic Studies Quarterly, Signal Magazine, United States Cybersecurity Magazine, the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, The National Interest, Small Wars Journal, and The Diplomat, and blog posts for The Conversation, the Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations. He has spoken on defense and cyber issues on national media outlets, like NPR, KCBS Radio SF, and The First TV, and provided commentary in international newspapers, such as The Los Angeles Times, Daily Express UK and the French daily Liberation.

	Bilyana Lilly Cybersecurity Manager and Adjunct Researcher RAND Corporation
Dr. Bilyana Lilly is a cybersecurity manager and an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Lilly helps clients to detect and respond to ransomware threats and information warfare. Prior to joining Deloitte, Bilyana led a team that developed a threat-based risk assessment framework to prioritize vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security now uses in all 50 states. She is a speaker at DefCon, CyCon, Executive Women's Forum, and the Warsaw Security Forum, and the author of two books and a dozen publications, translated in Russian and Chinese. Dr. Lilly has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and ZDNet and has been denounced by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Lilly has a Ph.D. from Pardee RAND Graduate School, and master’s degrees from Oxford University (distinction) in England and the Graduate Institute in Switzerland.

	Andrei Soldatov Nonresident Senior Fellow, 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 covered the siege in Beslan for Echo of Moskvy, a leading independent radio station, and Moscow News. For Novaya Gazeta, he covered the 2006 Lebanon War from Lebanon and tensions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He 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).

Project Connect: Understanding the Russian Way of Cyberwarfare

March 10th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDTvia Cisco Webex Events

March 10th at 17:00 CET/11:00 EDT
via Cisco Webex Events