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Senate Committee Hearing on Cybersecurity Bill Thursday

Raffaela Wakeman
Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:52 PM
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing on the "Cybersecurity Act of 2012" for Thursday, February 16 at 2:30PM. It will be webcast live here. Those testifying include: PANEL I
  • The Honorable  John D. Rockefeller IV
    U.S. Senate
PANEL II
  • The Honorable  Janet A. Napolitano
    Secretary
    U.S.

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing on the "Cybersecurity Act of 2012" for Thursday, February 16 at 2:30PM. It will be webcast live here. Those testifying include: PANEL I
  • The Honorable  John D. Rockefeller IV
    U.S. Senate
PANEL II
  • The Honorable  Janet A. Napolitano
    Secretary
    U.S. Department of Homeland Security
PANEL III
  • The Honorable  Thomas J. Ridge
    Chairman, National Security Task Force
    U.S. Chamber of Commerce
     
  • The Honorable  Stewart A. Baker
    Partner
    Steptoe & Johnson
     
  • James A. Lewis, Ph.D.
    Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program
    Center for Strategic and International Studies
     
  • Scott Charney
    Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing Group
    Microsoft Corporation
Over at The Hill, Brendan Sasso gives a rundown of this and other hearings scheduled this week in tech policy.

Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT. Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.

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