Melissa HathawayFormer Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace, National Security Council
Cyber has quickly become the global threat that knows no borders, nor does it distinguish between the public and private sectors. Executives from the world’s largest tech companies gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month to talk about the problem and try to find solutions that could be shared on a global scale, namely, finding a way to create an effective global infrastructure dedicated to defending governments, networks and businesses.
That global threat that cyber poses is one of the issues that Melissa Hathaway had to deal with as she led both the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) under President George W. Bush and later spearheaded the Cyberspace Policy Review during President Obama’s Administration. She is currently the President of Hathaway Global Strategies and is a Senior Advisor at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. The Cipher Brief caught up with her to talk about the rapidly changing nature of the global threats and what has to be done to address them.
The Cipher Brief: The cyber threat environment is changing…
