Jason Healey

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Jason Healey
Cyber security

Cyber policy
Notable worksA Fierce Domain, Cyber Conflict 1986 to 2012
Cyber Security Policy Guidebook
Website
twitter.com/Jason_Healey

Jason Healey is an American senior research scholar and adjunct professor at the

cyber security
and has advised on security measures for corporate, government, and military institutions. He has been identified as the first historian of cyber conflict.

History

Healey was born and raised in

Information Security from James Madison University.[3][4]

Work in cybersecurity and cyber policy

Healey's career has focused principally on cyber policy, its implementation, and addressing responses to security threats. In

The White House as the director for cyber infrastructure protection. He is currently a board member on the Cyber Conflict Studies Association and the Military Cyber Professionals Association.[4] The extent of his work has led one magazine to refer to Healey as the first historian of cyber conflict.[3]

Healey is a frequent public commentator

Heartbleed bug, noting the discrepancy between the National Security Agency's stated priority of defense and its failure to expose the bug when it was found, and he said that the organization would be "shredded by the computer security community" for this failure.[13] In 2013, Healey took a critical stance on the state of mass surveillance in the United States. He predicted that U.S. interests abroad would suffer "deep and long term damage" if the administration failed to find alternatives to spying conducted by the National Security Agency.[14]

In 2012, Healey published the first comprehensive history of cyber-conflict, A Fierce Domain, Cyber Conflict 1986 to 2012,[15] positing that confrontations within cyberspace have established a new kind of conflict, with new characteristics. He explores this development through historical studies, beginning with the KGB's 1986 hacking initiative to steal military plans from the U.S. in what is referred to as the Cuckoo's Egg Case.[3][16] The book was positively reviewed[17] and has been referred to as a "definitive historical record of cyber conflict."[18]

In March 2014,

Forbes identified Healey as one of twenty cyber policy experts to follow on Twitter.[19]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Jason Healey". sipa.columbia.edu. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  2. ^ "Jason Healey".
  3. ^ a b c d e Vitaliev, Vitali (December 16, 2013). "Interview with Jason Healey". E&T Magazine. The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Balaban, David (June 3, 2013). "Why is Cyber Conflicts Amnesia Dangerous? Interview with Jason Healey from the Atlantic Council". Privacy PC. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  5. ^ "2015 International Cyber Risk Management Conference" (PDF). ICRMC. Retrieved 10 June 2021. Healey worked twice for Goldman Sachs. First to anchor their team for responding to cyber-attacks and later as an executive director in Hong Kong to manage Asia-wide business continuity.
  6. ^ "Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies - Faculty and Researchers". Stanford. Retrieved 10 June 2021. Healey created the first cyber incident response team for Goldman Sachs and later oversaw the bank's crisis management and business continuity in Hong Kong.
  7. ^ Wood, Molly (July 9, 2013). "Tech companies look to stay ahead of hackers". Marketplace.org. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  8. ^ Hoffman, Karen Epper (February 3, 2014). "Advanced malware: The growing cyber menace". SC Magazine. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  9. ^ Healey, Jason (2011). "The Spectrum of National Responsibility for Cyberattacks". Brown Journal of World Affairs. 18 (1): 57โ€“69.
  10. ^ Healey, Jason (2011). "Four ways to address cyberconflict โ€“ and how analytics can help" (PDF). Journal of Advanced Analytics: 32โ€“34. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  11. ^ Gjelten, Tom (February 11, 2013). "Pentagon Goes On The Offensive Against Cyberattacks". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  12. ^ Todd, Brian (February 28, 2014). "Syria: U.S. Cyber-Strike". The Situation Room. CNN. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  13. NY Daily News
    . April 12, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  14. ^ Strohm, Chris; Gaouette, Nicole (November 6, 2013). "Lawmakers Spurn Obama Bid to Preserve NSA Data Gathering". Bloomberg News. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
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  16. ^ "Jason Healey: A Fierce Domain". Pritzker Military Presents. Pritzker Military Museum & Library. April 10, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  17. ^ "Digital doomsters". The Economist. The Economist Newspaper Limited. June 29, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  18. ^ Gourley, Bob (September 29, 2017). "A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012". CTOvision.com. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  19. ^ Stiennon, Richard (March 26, 2014). "20 Cyber Policy Experts To Follow On Twitter". Forbes. Retrieved August 31, 2019.

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