03
August 2015
Past Event
Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge

Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
August 03, 2015
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03
August 2015
Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Speakers:
Dr. Samantha Ravich

Editor, Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge and Board of Advisors Member, Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The Honorable Juan C. Zarate

Chairman & Senior Counselor, Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Congressman Mike Rogers

Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute; Former U.S. Representative, Michigan; and Former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

Steven Chabinsky

General Counsel & Chief Risk Officer, CrowdStrike

Dr. Michael Hsieh

Program Manager, DARPA

Mark Dubowitz

Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Director, Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Mark Tucker

CEO, Temporal Defense Systems

The U.S. government has established an arsenal of economic warfare tools aimed at weakening rogue actors, isolating illicit finance, and protecting the global economy. Washington’s playbook is filled with asset freezes, sanctions, trade embargoes, and blacklists. At the same time, the Information Age has led to a transformative development in the realm of economic warfare: the potential use of cyberattacks to cause the U.S. substantial economic harm and weaken its national security capacity.

With the exception of cyberterrorism, cyberattacks on U.S. economic targets have been treated as vexing nuisances and a cost of doing business, but have not been viewed as a strategic national security threat. The changing nature and increased volume of cybercrime, espionage, hacking, and sabotage raises the question: Is there lurking a new type of action aimed specifically at undermining American economic power, destabilizing the global economic system, and threatening U.S. allies?

What are America’s vulnerabilities and how can the U.S. government and private sector recognize, monitor, deter, defend against, and defeat such warfare? A new report, Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare: An Evolving Challenge, edited by Dr. Samantha Ravich seeks to address these questions. Leading experts came together on August 3rd to discuss and debate the report's critical findings in an event hosted by Hudson Institute and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance.

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