Jacquelyn Schneider, Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Initiative, and Davis Hake, Co-Founder and Vice President of Policy at Resilience, discuss how private and public sectors influence and implement emerging cyber-security policies.
by Nikhil Chawla
Policies inform security. Indeed, emerging policies could also threaten security if they are not well thought out by “the policy people.” In this session we learn the who and what of the policy people. How do they get involved with policy work that in turn affects our work, and how can we as security leaders start incorporating emerging policy concerns in our operational work and strategies.
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