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Fletcher Eurasia Club Lunch Seminar: Josephine Wolff on U.S. Cybersecurity Assistance to Ukraine
by Eurasia Club
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Beginning in late 2021, the U.S. government began sending cyber units to Ukraine to help the country reinforce its digital protections and alert systems against Russian intrusions. This conversation will offer a timeline of the types of technical assistance provided to Ukraine, ranging from network infrastructure to detection systems, the types of Russian cyberattacks and attempted intrusions that Ukraine and others encountered during that period, and the types of intelligence that the United States was able to glean through this partnership. We will also consider the broader impacts of the relative success of Ukraine's cyber defense efforts on the U.S. Defend Forward doctrine as well as U.S. attempts to work more directly with international partners, especially in Eastern Europe, on cybersecurity that are often reluctant to grant foreign governments access to their networks.
We encourage you to read a news article about a U.S. military cyber team’s defense of Ukraine by British writer Gordon Corera, a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report on international support to Ukrainian cyber defense by technology policy expert Nick Beecroft, and a Google report on how the Russia-Ukraine war has transformed the cyber threat landscape. We also recommend Professor Wolff's report for the Brookings Institution on the effectiveness of Ukraine's digital defenses.
The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served in the Isobe Room, Mugar 251F.
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Josephine Wolff
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Josephine Wolff is Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at The Fletcher School. Her research interests include liability for cybersecurity incidents, international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, cybersecurity workforce development, and the economics of information security. She has written two books, including You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches (2018) and Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks (2022). Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. She was previously Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.