Category Archives: Cybersecurity & Hybrid Wars

Timothy Snyder in Lennart Meri Conference

“If the Czechs resisted (Nazist) and the French and the British, eventually the Americans, started to help, there would be a conflict, but there would not had been World War II.” said Timothy Snyder at Lennart Meri Conference 2024.

Watch the panel discussion (key post by Timothy from 18:38 to 21:56) Keeping Up Support to Ukraine – Defining as Long as It Takes? held in Tallinn, Estonia on May 18, 2024 together with:

Igli Hasani, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania;
Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia;
Samir Saran, President of the Observer Research Foundation;
Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University;
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (online);
Moderator: Jim Sciutto, Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst at CNN.

Farewell General Paul Nakasone

General Paul M. Nakasone was retired on February 1, 2024. He was serving as Commander, U.S. Cyber Command, Director, NSA/Chief, CSS since May of 2018. Remember General Nakasone in photos.

Paul M. Nakasone passed the flag to Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh at U.S. Cyber Command ceremony in Fort Meade, Maryland on February 2, 2024. Read more about ceremony.

General Paul Nakasone at Hoover

General Paul Nakasone visited Hoover Institution at Stanford University on April 26, 2023.

Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and commander of US Cyber Command talked to students at the undergraduate class Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Read more.

Hoover Tower, Stanford University, February 22, 2020

Cyber Diplomacy with Nathaniel Fick

Nathaniel Fick talked about The Role of Partnerships in Advancing Cyber Diplomacy at RSA Conference on April 26, 2023.

Nate Fick is the Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy at U.S. Department of State now. His presentation is not available online yet, but you can watch his interview at The Foreign Policy of Technology on February 2, 2023 instead.

From supporting Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine to helping ensure governments do not use digital surveillance to silence dissent, cyber diplomacy is playing a growing role in advancing security, defending democratic institutions, and protecting digital freedom. Join us for a conversation with cyber envoys from the Netherlands and the United States, as well as representatives from the private sector, to explore how international collaboration can help set and enforce limits on state behavior in cyberspace and how it can contribute to effective Internet governance. Discover more.

Amy Zegart and Condoleezza Rice at Hoover

The Hoover Institution and The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University hosted Amy Zegart and Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday on February 22, 2022. They talked about Amy’s new book Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, published on February 1, 2022.

Amy Zegart is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Chair of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence and International Security Steering Committee.

You can watch or listen the conversation.

Geopolitical Risks with Admiral Stavridis

Admiral James Stavridis and Prof. Juliette Kayyem discussed at RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 27, 2020. They showed deep insights in geopolitical risks. I was lucky enough to be there too. Watch 52 minutes video. You can also contact me to get our personal experience from this event.

Admiral James Stavridis and Prof. Juliette Keyyem at RSAC 2020

Hybrid Wars with Ljudmila Savcukova

Wonderful panel discussion about Hybrid Wars with Patrik Oksanen, Lenka Bradacova, Bob Kartouz and Ljudmila Savcukova at Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize 2019 Conference in Prague, October 2, 2019. I was lucky to be there too. Watch 2 hour video (in Czech language only). Or you can contact me to get personal experience from this event.

General Paul Nakasone at RSAC

Olivia Gazis from CBS News talked with General Paul Nakasone from US Cyber Command & National Security Agency (NSA) at RSAC. General talked about strategic competition, stealing intellectual property, Russian activities, Chinese investments, ISIS and about more proactive response to cyber attacks. This great interview took place at RSA Conference in San Francisco on March 7, 2019. I was lucky to be there too. Watch 46 minutes video from this interview or just 8 minutes top ten takeaways. Or you can contact me to get our experience from this event.

Dame Stella Rimington at RSAC

Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of British Intelligence MI5, talked about her amazing life story in one hour show at RSAC in San Francisco, on March 8, 2017. I was lucky enough to be there too. Watch 2 minutes video from this fabulous speech. Or you can contact me to get our experience from this event. And do not forget security guys: make the world safer, simpler and kinder!

Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques

Ed Skoudis, Johannes Ullrich and Michael Assante discussed The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques. Discussion was held at RSA Conference in San Francisco, on March 1, 2017. I was lucky enough to be there too. Watch 51 minute discussion with moderator Alan Paller and learn more about Ransomware and Internet of Things. Or you can contact me to get our experience from this event.