Cybersecurity Futures 2025 Background and Overview A consistent observation about the digital era is that when people and technology mix, the results are surprisingly hard to anticipate. That kind of uncertainty has put cybersecurity professionals at a structural disadvantage because it favors attackers and exploiters over defenders and protectors. Looking…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is proud to co-sponsor “Towards Inclusive Tech,” a 1.5-day conference to be held on September 14-15 that will bring together leaders from the business, non-profit, and academic communities “to identify the most promising research and business and educational practices that will support our commitments to…
The U.S. Government has an ongoing need to employ top experts in cybersecurity, data science, and other technology domains. Yet the most qualified professionals in these fields are often wary of taking jobs at bureaucratic agencies in Washington D.C., preferring instead to work for more lucrative and innovative companies in…
On April 4, 2017, Emily Reid, a cybersecurity professional who formerly served as Director of Education at Girls Who Code, delivered a CLTC Lunch Seminar entitled “The Cybersecurity Pipeline… Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love a Chicken and Egg Problem”. Her presentation focused on the gender…
From March 14-16, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity partnered with the EastWest Institute (EWI) to host the Global Cyberspace Cooperation Summit VII. This event brought together more than 200 leading policymakers, business leaders, and technical experts from over 30 countries around the world to discuss and find policy…
Recorded on March 7, 2017 as part of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s 2017 Spring Lunch Seminar Series, this presentation features Gilad Rosner, founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum. A researcher, consultant and government advisor focused on privacy and public policy, Rosner focuses his work on privacy by…
What would happen if the United States government built a quantum computer that could unscramble even the most sophisticated encryption? What if another government—or a private company—were to achieve this feat first? And what would be the political implications if such powerful computers ever became as widespread as today’s desktop…
Gilad Rosner, Founder, Internet of Things Privacy Forum “The Intimacy of Things: Privacy and the IoT” March 7, 1pm South Hall, Room 205, UC Berkeley Campus A researcher, consultant and government advisor focused on privacy and public policy, Gilad Rosner is the founder of the Internet of Things Privacy…
On February 21, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity was honored to host a meeting of Privacy Lab, a regular meetup for privacy-minded people to foster communication and collaboration. Privacy Lab has a goal to bring together people who work in the privacy space from different perspectives—including policy people, techies, activists,…
On February 15, 2017, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity—together with the UC Berkeley Department of Computer Science—were honored to present a talk by Mikko Hypponen,the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure, a European cybersecurity firm. Mr. Hypponen is a globally renowned expert on cybersecurity, and his research has been featured in…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is pleased to announce our 2017 Spring Lunch Seminar Series, featuring a diverse array of experts and thought-leaders from different cybersecurity domains. Please visit this page and RSVP in advance for each event that you plan to attend. The series kicks off on February…
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is pleased to welcome Laurin Weissinger as a Visiting Scholar for the Spring 2017 semester. Originally from Stuttgart, Germany, Weissinger was trained as a social scientist but has also spent 13 years working in IT as a systems administrator, and he has worked in a…
On December 9, 2016, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity presented a dissertation talk by Bill Marczak, a computer science Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, a CLTC research grantee, and a senior research fellow at Citizen Lab. Recently profiled in Vanity Fair, Bill Marczak’s research focuses on identifying and tracking nation-state…
On November 18, Steve Weber, Faculty Director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC), and Betsy Cooper, Exective Director, participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center, in Washington, D.C. At the center of their discussion: “Cybersecurity Policy Ideas for a New Presidency,” a report recently published…
On November 15, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity hosted a lunch seminar featuring Marshall Kuypers, a cyber risk scientist at Qadium. In his presentation, “Analyzing Global Internet Data,” Kuypers explained how it is possible to scan all the publicly accessible devices in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) that are connected…
Please join us on Nov. 15 at 12pm for a CLTC lunch seminar with Marshall Kuypers, a cyber risk scientist at Qadium. In his talk, Kuypers will discuss insights and applications derived from analyzing data on every publicly accessible device on the Internet. This event, part of the CLTC 2016…
On November 3, 2016, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity hosted a lunch seminar with Angela McKay, Director of the Government Security Policy and Strategy team within Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft. In her role, Ms. McKay focuses on driving strategic change, both within Microsoft and externally, to advance trust…
On Nov. 1, CLTC continued our Fall 2016 Seminar Series with a interactive presentation by Steve Walker, CEO of Cobaltix, a business technology and consulting firm based in San Francisco. A UC Berkeley alum with extensive experience in cybersecurity, Walker works primarily with small multi-billion-dollar companies (venture capital funds, hedge…