Cyberattacks - with Josephine Wolff

08 April 2019| LIBRARY London, London, UK

Virtual Futures presents Josephine Wolff in conversation on her new book, You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches (The MIT Press, 2019).

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. From the theft of 145.5 million Americans' information from Equifax, to the Russian government's theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump - these events make headlines, inspire panic, instigate lawsuits, and are then quickly forgotten. It is a cycle of alarm, followed quickly by amnesia.

Wolff joins us to share how we shouldn't forget about these incidents. Instead, we should investigate their trajectory. From technology flaws, to reparations for harm done, to the impact on future security measures - we can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches. In doing so we can develop new defensive interventions that will allow us to do a better job at protecting online data.

In conversation with Luke Robert Mason, Director of Virtual Futures.

Josephine Wolff is Assistant Professor in the Public Policy Department and Computer Security Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative. She has written for Internet Policy Review, Slate, the Atlantic, Scientific American, the New Republic, and other publications.