Webinar with prof Josephine Wolff  Cyber dimensions of the Russia Ukraine conflict
Channel: TalTech – Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
Date: 25/03/2022

Cyber campaigns have been an element of international conflicts going back to the early 2000s, but the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended many assumptions and prior established patterns about how countries typically use cyber capabilities in the context of such conflicts.

This talk will consider prior examples of Russian cyberattacks in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine, and then focus on the uses of cyber capabilities by Russia, Ukraine, and other countries and private companies over the course of the ongoing conflict and consider the ways in which these stakeholders have diverged from previous examples of cyber conflict.

Finally, we'll consider what lessons we can draw about cyberattacks and cyber conflict more broadly and how we can update our ideas about the potential and risks of cyber capabilities for impacting international conflict.

Presenter: Josephine Wolff is an associate professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts University. Her research interests include cybersecurity policy, international internet governance, cyber-insurance, security responsibilities and liability of online intermediaries, government-funded programs for cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the legal, political, and economic consequences of cybersecurity incidents.

Wolff’s writing on cybersecurity has appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired.