“This is essentially a memo to the next president, a transition memo.” That’s how Tom Donilon, former National Security Advisor to President Obama, described the report that the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will present to the White House in December. Donilon was speaking at the June 21 meeting of…
The San Francisco Chronicle profiled the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity in an article originally published on June 3, 2016 in the paper’s print and paid digital edition. You can read a syndicated version of the article on Tech Wire. The article, “Center Looks at Future of Cybersecurity,” by Sean Sposito,…
The latest episode of “The Cybersecurity Podcast,” produced by Christian Science Monitor’s Passcode, features an interview with CLTC faculty director Steven Weber. Passcode was CLTC’s lead media partner for the recent release of our Cyberfutures 2020 scenarios. In the podcast, led by Passcode’s Sara Sorcher and New America’s Peter Singer,…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity was established with a generous seed grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Now the Hewlett Foundation has published an interview with Steve Weber, CLTC’s Faculty Director, on its blog, Work in Progress. The interview, “Four Questions for Steven Weber on Cybersecurity Futures 2020,”…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s recently released scenarios for the future of cybersecurity have started to ripple through the public discourse. In his story, Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?, Kaveh Waddell writes in The Atlantic about the CLTC scenario called Bubble 2.0, which depicts how…
How might individuals adapt to a world in which all online activity is assumed to be accessible by hackers? How could the proliferation of networked appliances, vehicles, and devices transform human society? What would be the consequences of powerful algorithms capable of predicting human behavior at a granular scale? These…
On April 28, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) will release “Cybersecurity Futures 2020,” a series of five scenarios detailing possible futures for humans and technology in the year 2020. Written as forward-looking narratives, these scenarios explore pressing issues such as the vulnerability of personal data in the…
On March 9, 2016, Betsy Cooper, Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, gave three presentations at a conference in Washington DC focused on “Cybersecurity for a New America,” sponsored by the New America Foundation. Videos for each of the presentations are below. The panel discussion “Are…
Two team members of the CLTC—Betsy Cooper, Executive Director, and Jonathan Reiber, Senior Fellow—have published articles in recent weeks. Writing for the Christian Science Monitor, Jonathan Reiber, Senior Fellow with the CLTC and former chief strategy officer for cyber policy in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, partnered…
On Wednesday, March 2, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) hosted two panels at the 25th anniversary RSA Conference (RSAC), one of the world’s largest cryptography and information security conferences, at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco. The panel, “How to Prepare for Cybersecurity in 2020: A Panel…
On February 9, 2016, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, together with the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, hosted Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and one of the founders of the Internet, for a presentation and interactive discussion at Boalt Hall, at…
In partnership with the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity hosted this presentation by Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). His talk, “The Road to a Fully Encrypted Internet,” explores some of the institutional and technical…
How can organizations better detect spear-phishing cyberattacks? How could neural signals be used as a method of online authentication? How effective are tactics such as financial account closures and asset seizures in deterring cyber criminals? What types of defenses could help protect at-risk activists and NGOs from state-level surveillance? These…
The Center for Long-Term Cyberecurity (CLTC) is profiled in the Winter 2016 issue of The Promise of Berkeley, a publication produced “for alumni, parents, and friends who shape Cal’s future.” Published by University Development and Alumni Relations, this publication highlights compelling news stories from across the UC Berkeley campus and…
On October 20, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) hosted a discussion with Admiral Michael Rogers, Commander of the United States Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency. In an hour-long event moderated by Steve Weber, Faculty Director of the CLTC, Admiral Rogers engaged in a…
The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is pleased to announce the hiring of its first Executive Director, Betsy Cooper. “We are excited that Betsy Cooper has joined us at CLTC,” said Steve Weber, Faculty Director of the CLTC and Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. “She…
During a recent presentation for the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, Chris Demchak, Professor and RADM Grace M. Hopper Chair of Cybersecurity at the U.S. Naval War College, noted that one of the major vulnerabilities for the Internet lies in the international submarine cable network, the vast system of cables that…
In a blog post, Robert Morgus, a researcher and organizer for the New America Foundation’s Cybersecurity Initiative, raises the question: why is the market for cybersecurity insurance so underdeveloped? “Despite the narrative, the crux of our current cyber problem is largely not technical at all, but instead comes down to…