Herb Lin Primer on Cyber Conflict and National Security
Herb Lin, the chief scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (which is a component of the National Research Council of the National Academies), has been the study director of many important NRC reports related to cybersecurity (and other topics related to national security more generally, collected here). Herb has reduced his vast stores of knowledge into a short, accessible
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Herb Lin, the chief scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (which is a component of the National Research Council of the National Academies), has been the study director of many important NRC reports related to cybersecurity (and other topics related to national security more generally, collected here). Herb has reduced his vast stores of knowledge into a short, accessible primer on Cyber Conflict and National Security. The paper was written for political scientists but it is a great introduction to the topic for anyone.
Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.
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