The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise

Human Centered

English - January 17, 2024 16:02 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from the fact that cybersecurity experts must establish their authority by paradoxically revealing vulnerabilities and insecurities of that which they seek to protect.

REBECCA SLAYTON

Cornell University faculty page | | CASBS page |

Slayton's book Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012 (MIT Press)

Slayton's article "What is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance?," International Security

Video: Talk on "Shadowing Cybersecurity: Expertise, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Uncertainty" at Stanford Univ.

JOHN MARKOFF

New York Times page

Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Steward Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

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