Gourley provided context on the Cyber Conflict Studies Association. An except follows:
FGIT: What is the Cyber Conflict Studies Association?
Gourley: It was formed in 2003. We’ve been focused on academia, working with the colleges, and therefore not been seeking a lot of publicity. Our whole purpose of being is to advance the field of knowledge around cyber conflict, and that meant working with institutions like MIT or the Kennedy School of Government or Georgetown or University of Maryland, those kinds of places.
FGIT: What kinds of advances in thinking has CCSA contributed to?
Gourley: This is not just a computer security challenge. This is something that other part of the community needs to study, not just the computer security guys. We need policy makers to be thinking through cyber conflict, and that has possibly been our greatest contribution–getting the policy makers and those who study peace and war engaged in the study of cyber conflict.
via Q&A: Bob Gourley on the Cyber Conflict Studies Association – FierceGovernmentIT.
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