The Lawfare Podcast: DHS Leadership Talk Cybersecurity

Jen Patja; Benjamin Wittes; Tim Maurer; Jennifer Daskal; Eric Goldstein

The Lawfare Podcast: DHS Leadership Talk Cybersecurity

Jen Patja, Benjamin Wittes, Tim Maurer, Jennifer Daskal, Eric Goldstein

Friday, April 23, 2021, 12:00 PM

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Tim Maurer is a senior counselor for cybersecurity to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Jennifer Daskal serves as deputy general counsel at DHS focused on cybersecurity. And Eric Goldstein serves as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity for CISA, DHS's cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. They joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about what the Biden administration's priority is in cybersecurity domestically, how DHS is using its new authorities that it has received in the National Defense Authorization Act, how CISA has grown as an agency and what success looks like if the administration pursues its goals effectively.

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Jen Patja

Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.

Benjamin Wittes

benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

Tim Maurer

Tim Maurer co-directs the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on cyberspace and international affairs, namely cybersecurity, human rights online, and Internet governance. Maurer is a member of several U.S. track 1.5 cyber dialogues and the Freedom Online Coalition’s cybersecurity working group “An Internet Free and Secure.” He was a member of the Research Advisory Network of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, co-chaired the Advisory Board of the 2015 Global Conference on CyberSpace in The Hague, and developed the Global Cyber Definitions Database for the chair of the OSCE to support the implementation of the organization’s cyber confidence-building measures.

Jennifer Daskal

Jen Daskal is a Partner at Venable LLP. She is a national security legal and policy expert, with years of experience managing crisis, mitigating risk, and working at the intersection of technology, policy and law. From October 2023 to January 2025, Daskal was the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House. She also previously served as the Principal Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council, Acting General Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice. She has written extensively on issues of data security and data privacy, testified multiple times before Congress, and published numerous journal articles and op-eds.