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Join this Policy in Practice talk by Dr. Michael Hsieh on the ABCs of cyber threats to democracy, hosted by Professor of Political Science Yves Tiberghien (Co-Director, UBC Centre for Japanese Research; Faculty Associate, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs).
Please RSVP. A light lunch is provided.
*Please note the new time, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm. We hope you can still join us!
Misinformation? Disinformation? Cyber-breaches and Kill Switches? Dr. Michael Hsieh will provide insights gained from a career in cybersecurity that has taken him from DARPA to think tanks to global corporations. His presentation will cover real case studies of real cyber breaches, explore the mechanics of how a cyber breach happens, and end with pointers on what steps organizations take to improve their cyber readiness.
Bio: Dr. Michael Hsieh is the executive director of FDD’s Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab. He previously served as a program manager in the Information Innovation Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His focus was on quantitative and cryptographic techniques for establishing provable security in big data and software. Prior to that, he was a research scientist at Science Applications International Corporation and a scientific consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Most recently, Michael received a Council on Foreign Relations’ International Affairs Fellowship to work with the Japanese government to assess the prospect of developing high-risk / high-reward research institutions in Japan to support the U.S.-Japan security partnership.
He earned his bachelor’s degrees in economics and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD in chemistry at Princeton University.
Co-hosted by: School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Centre for Japanese Research (CJR), and Political Science, UBC
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