Charting a Cybersecurity Path for the Next Administration:
Report of the President's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

Herb Lin
Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stanford University

In February 2016, President Obama established the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, and charged it with developing a cybersecurity roadmap for the next Administration. On Friday, December 2, the Commission released its final report. As one of the 12 commissioners responsible for the report, I will brief the major themes and recommendations in the report, provide some personal reflections, and answer questions as best I can.

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About the speaker:

Herb Lin is a senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests concern the policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace; he is particularly interested in and knowledgeable about the use of offensive operations in cyberspace, especially as instruments of national policy. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is chief scientist emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, at the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and adjunct senior research scholar and senior fellow in cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Before his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Apart from his work on cyberspace and cybersecurity, he has published on cognitive science, science education, biophysics, and arms control and defense policy. He also consults on K12 math and science education.

Contact information:

Herb Lin   herblin@stanford.edu
Stanford