Cyber Experts Available to Discuss the Politics, Policy, Law and Technology of Cybersecurity, Cyberterrorism and More

NEW YORK, N.Y. (Dec. 17, 2015) — Columbia University experts are available to speak with the news media about the politics, policy, law and technology of cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, infrastructure protection, cryptography and more.

Jason Healey
Healey is the former White House Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Founding Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council. He worked for Goldman Sachs where he created their first cyber response program to protect the bank’s units in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He began his career in signals intelligence and the NSA and was a founding member of the first joint military cyber command in 1998. He is co-editor of the book A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012. Healey is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Expertise: cybersecurity; cyber conflict; homeland security; infrastructure protection; cyber issues in the military, the intelligence community, government agencies, and the finance sector.

Matthew C. Waxman
Waxman served at the U.S. Department of State, as Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Director for Contingency Planning & International Justice at the National Security Council, and special assistant to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He is Co-Chair of the Center for Cybersecurity at Columbia University's Data Science Institute. His publications include Self-Defensive Force against Cyber Attacks: Legal, Strategic and Political Dimensions (U.S. Naval War College, 2013), and Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force: Back to the Future of Article 2(4) (Yale Journal of International Law, 2011). Waxman is a professor at Columbia Law School.
Expertise: cybersecurity; surveillance and privacy law; national security law; terrorism; constitutional war powers; U.S. foreign and defense policy.

Steven M. Bellovin
Bellovin served as a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security and as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. He helped create USENET, one of the first online communities. He co-invented the widely used encrypted key exchange password- authentication methods. He holds several patents on cryptographic and network protocols. His latest book is Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year's Hackers. He is Chair of the Center for Cybersecurity at Columbia University's Data Science Institute. Bellovin is a professor in Columbia University’s Department of Computer Science.
Expertise: cybersecurity; computer networks; privacy; cryptography; public policy of cyber issues.

Media should contact Sabina S. Lee, 212-854-5579, [email protected] to schedule interviews.