Susan Landau, Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in Computer Science, Tufts University

Policymakers and computer scientists speak different languages. Getting tech policy right requires technologists to learn how to communicate so policymakers can understand the issues and make reasonable judgements. In this keynote, I present lessons learned from twenty-five years of policy work in cybersecurity.

Speaker's Biography: Susan Landau is Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in Computer Science, Tufts University. Previously, as Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Landau established an innovative MS degree in Cybersecurity and Public Policy joint between the schools. She has been a senior staff privacy analyst at Google, distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, and faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. She has served at various boards at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and for several government agencies. She is the author or co-author of four books and numerous research papers. She has received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, shared with Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, and the American Mathematical Society's Bertrand Russell Prize.

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