On September 22, AFPC’s Defense Technology Program held a luncheon briefing for Congressional staffers on Internet Security Governance as part of its five-part briefing series on cybersecurity.
AFPC Director of Defense Technology Programs Rich Harrison moderated a panel of speakers that included: Mozilla’s Security Engineering Lead Richard Barnes; Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute Senior Research Associate and George Washington University PhD candidate in political science Trey Herr; and, CloudFlare Inc. (a content delivery network and domain name services company) public policy team member Heather West In their respective presentations, panelists discussed defensive tools which countries and non-state actors can use to grapple with the transnational nature of the Internet. These include international agreements like the Wassenaar Arrangement, as well as the process of drafting, approving, and promulgating security standards for implementation across the Internet.
