Cybersecurity & Tech

The Security by Design Project: An Annotated Review

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi, Justin Sherman, Paul Rosenzweig
Monday, June 30, 2025, 1:00 PM
An academic, comprehensive, and holistic look back at two years of Lawfare research on Security by Design and attempts to implement the concept effectively.
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In this paper for Lawfare’s Security by Design Paper (SbD) Series, Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi, Justin Sherman, and Paul Rosenzweig look back on the past two years of rigorous examination of what SbD means in practice—the first ever such effort to assess the concept. They take stock of the project's 19 papers and articles, along with three podcasts, in this summary of what Lawfare's contributors have produced. To that end, the paper collects, categorizes, and summarizes the product of our project—an academic, comprehensive, and holistic overview of the latest research on SbD and attempts to implement the concept effectively.

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Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

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Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi is Head of U.S. Federal Civilian Policy at Google, focused on bringing innovative technologies into the government. Prior to Google, he worked for the U.S. government and was a litigator. Omid received his B.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Miami and will receive his LL.M. in Government Procurement from the George Washington University Law School. He currently lives with his wife in Washington, D.C.
Justin Sherman

Justin Sherman

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Justin Sherman is a contributing editor at Lawfare. He is also the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm; the scholar in residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center; and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Paul Rosenzweig

Paul Rosenzweig

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Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company. He formerly served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University, a senior fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a board member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
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