Summary: Both President Bush and President Obama directed comprehensive reviews of America's cyber security strategy. The current Cyberspace Policy Review concludes that cyber security poses some of the most serious economic and national security challenges of the 21st Century. The challenges include cyber warfare, cyber terrorism, cyber espionage, cyber attacks on defense facilities, critical infrastructure and private companies, and cyber theft of personal data. They give rise to complex and interconnected legal and policy issues, in areas such as the law of armed conflict, privacy and the scope of regulation, which will be addressed at this symposium. The International and National Security Law Practice Group presented this conference on June 28, 2011. The first panel on national security featured Mr. Steven G. Bradbury of Dechert LLP and former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel; Col. Gary D. Brown of the United States Cyber Command with the U.S. Air Force; Mr. Shane Harris of The Washingtonian; Prof. Jeremy A. Rabkin of George Mason Law School; and Mr. Paul Rosenzweig of Red Branch Law and Consulting, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, as the moderator. Welcome and Introduction by Mr. Vincent Vitkowsky of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Law and Counterterrorism.
