The Hacked World Order: Cybersecurity, Commerce, and Diplomacy In The Digital Age
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Whether it’s the latest Wikileak, one billion Yahoo user accounts, or the DNC’s database, hacking incidents seem to be a daily occurrence. It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to keep confidential information secure.
Nothing in cyberspace is transparent or easily trackable, yet, in the future, this is where most international conflicts will be fought.
An expert on security issues and technology development and author of The Hacked World Order, Adam Segal knows the challenges hacking poses not only to private businesses and individuals, but entire countries. Speaking to the MIT Sloan chapter, Adam explains how digital technology has caused a shift in geopolitics and discuss how we can use advances in tech to rethink diplomacy in a digital era.
About the Speaker
Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He currently writes for the blog, “Net Politics.”
Before coming to CFR, Segal was an arms control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, he wrote about missile defense, nuclear weapons, and Asian security issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. Segal is the author of Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge (W.W. Norton, 2011) and Digital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China (Cornell University Press, 2003), as well as several articles and book chapters on Chinese technology policy.
Segal has a BA and PhD in government from Cornell University, and an MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.