The talk: In the coming year, the United States and its allies will face an increasingly complex and interconnected global security environment marked by the growing specter of great power competition and conflict, while collective, transnational threats to all nations and actors compete for our attention and finite resources. Dr. Sussman will provide a glimpse of both nation-state and transnational criminal threats via cyber crime. She will discuss the growing threats that are increasing in number, scale, and sophistication. These cyber attacks fuel a virtual ecosystem that threatens to cause greater disruptions of critical services worldwide. These nation-states and cyber criminals are driven by their strategic interests, the promise of large profits, reliable safe havens to operate, and the decreasing technical barriers to entry for new actors.
