First NATO Workshop on Autonomous Cyberdefence

On March 19 NATO IST152 Research Task Group on Autonomous Intelligent Agents for Cyberdefence organised the first NATO-Industry workshop on Autonomous Cyber Defence at Cranfield University, UK. The workshop saw a very good participation both in terms of audience size and interaction with the group members. In the first part… Continue reading

The Geopolitics of AI

I delivered a talk on how Artificial Intelligence is influencing geopolitics balance and international relations at the 2019 Pirate Security Conference in Munich. The conference is organised by the German Pirate Party and others and represents and “alternative” to the Munich Security Conference, held on the same days. After summarising… Continue reading

IET Cyberdefence Workshop Talk on Intelligent Agents

At the annual CS4ICS conference organised at its Savoy Place venue in London by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), I presented on February 8 2019 the work of the NATO IST-152 Research Group on Autonomous Intelligent Agents. The talk was part of the “Internet of Battle Things (IoBT):… Continue reading

System Safety and Cyber Security IET Conference

I was invited among the speakers at the 11th International Conference on System Safety and Cyber Security  (SSCS) that was held in London, at Savoy Place last 12-13 October. SSCS, organised by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, is the largest conference for system safety specialists held in the UK. It was… Continue reading

CyCon 2016 Opens Tomorrow in Tallinn

[This is a CCDCOE Press Release] The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict opens tomorrow in Tallinn, Estonia and continues through June 3. Focused on the theme of Cyber Power, CyCon 2016 asks how the traditional concept of power applies to cyberspace. Accredited media is invited to a media briefing at… Continue reading

Cyber Conference 2016 at Chatham House

Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) hosted its annual Cyber Conference this week in London. It must be said that the main threads of the discussion were not new in the field of cyber policy in general, and cyber security in particular. The raise of digital sovereignty was… Continue reading

Networks and States

Networks and States The Global Politics of Internet Governance Milton L. Mueller The MIT Press, 2010 Internet Governance was a hot subject in 2010 when this book was published and it is still so today, in our post-Snowden era. While it is true that this field is evolving rapidly, this… Continue reading

Cyberspace does not exist

Ever since William Gibson presented us with the word in his acclaimed science fiction novel “Neuromancer”, cyberspace evokes images of a virtual, immaterial world made up of bit and bytes, without borders and existing on a somewhat ethereal dimension above and beyond our physical everyday world (and its laws). More… Continue reading

Cyber Security 2014 at Chatham House

Last week at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs hosted its annual conference on Cyber Security. The theme was “Building Resilience, Reducing Risks” and it brought together a diverse set of speakers in the various panels, ranging from diplomats to public servants, from former military persons to corporate… Continue reading

The Ethics of Cyber Conflict

Cyber warfare is one of the most debated and vibrating buzzwords in recent years: geeks, security experts, military officers, lawyers could not even agree on a definition. Add philosophers to the mix and you obtain…. complete confusion or valuable contributions to the conversation (the line between the two is kind… Continue reading