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JULY 3, 2022 |
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REPEAT FROM NOVEMBER
10, 2019 |
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"Lessons on
Cyber Warfare from the NSA to the Army War College" |
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Today's guests: Cynthia E. Ayers |
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About our guest:
Cynthia
Ayers serves as
Deputy to the
Executive Director
of the Task Force on
National and
Homeland Security.
Ms. Ayers is a
national security
threat analyst and
consultant, having
retired from the
National Security
Agency (NSA) in 2011
with over 38 years
of military and
civil service
(combined). Her
intelligence
community career
included a position
as NSA
Representative to
the DCI’s
Counterterrorism
Center at CIA
headquarters, where
she worked
throughout the
attack on the USS
Cole and the 9/11
crisis (2000-2002).
Her government
service culminated
in an eight-year
assignment as the
National Security
Agency’s Visiting
Professor to the
U.S. Army War
College (USAWC),
where she taught
electives on
contemporary threats
to national security
from an intelligence
perspective (cyber
warfare, terrorism,
etc.) as well as
military
applications of
artificial
intelligence. She
advised students on
research concerning
strategic
intelligence,
counterterrorism,
cyber warfare, and
critical
infrastructure
protection.
Post-retirement, Ms.
Ayers was employed
as Vice President of
EMPact America, a
bipartisan,
not-for-profit group
working in support
of electric grid
vulnerability
mitigation. More
recently, she worked
as a temporary,
part-time research
assistant with
George Mason
University’s
Learning Agent
Center on a grant
concerning
artificial
intelligence-based
systems. She is
currently working as
an independent
cyberwarfare
consultant within
the Strategic
Concepts and
Doctrine Division of
the Center for
Strategic
Leadership, U.S.
Army War College,
and as a Senior
Advisor to the
Executive Director
of the Patuxent
Partnership.
Ms. Ayers has
provided a plethora
of briefings and
presentations on
critical
infrastructure
issues at
organizational
gatherings,
conferences, and
workshops to members
of the non-profit
sector, government
entities, and
interested groups
within academic
institutions. She
has testified before
the Canadian
Standing Senate
Committee on
National Security
and Defence; the
Joint Standing
Committee on Energy,
Utilities, and
Technology of the
Maine State
Legislature; the
Energy Policy
Committee of the
Michigan State
Legislature; members
of Indiana’s State
Legislature, and the
reestablished
Congressional EMP
Commission.
Ms. Ayers has
written several
published articles
on critical
infrastructure and
national security
issues, a monograph
on cyber sovereignty
(Rethinking
Sovereignty in the
Context of
Cyberspace), and
co-authored academic
papers on the
development of
cognitive agents for
intelligence
analysis. A
compilation of six
fictional case
studies concerning
the potential
effects of
cyberwarfare is
awaiting
publication.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY JACK VOLTAIC 2.0 FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS • Finding #1: Growing physical and cyber risk to
cities requires a different framework for risk mitigation, due to
current frameworks being inadequate to meet the changing and growing
threat to urban communities.
www.afcea.org
JackVoltaic_ExecSummary_R12-(Final).pdf |
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Cyber Triggers And The First Strike Dilemma
by Cynthia Ayers October 19, 2015
Cyber Triggers and The First Strike Dilemma – The Mackenzie
Institute
October is Cyber Security Month. “I think at the moment that there’s
not a significant price to pay [for cyber attacks] and so you see
actors, nation states, individuals willing to do more.” [1] Admiral
Michael Rogers, Director, National Security Agency, Commander, U.S.
Cyber Command “Until we redefine warfare in the age of information,
we will continue to be viciously and dangerously ...
mackenzieinstitute.com |
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Ayers_FSM_Atlas Almost Shrugged_ 27 Feb 2017.docx
Ayers_ Fraud Waste and Sabotage _ 10 Aug 2016.pdf
Ayers_Rebooting the Bureaucracies _ 20 July 2016.pdf
Ayers_The First Battle Of the Next War _ 11 Jan 2012.pdf
Ayers_The Phoenix and the Swan Song _ 18 Dec 2016.pdf
Ayers Article _ Selling our Souls for the Sake of Tolerance _ 3
August 2012.docx
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