#5 - State Competitiveness, Digital Trade and Cybersecurity

In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur chat with Prof. Susan Landau, Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University. They discuss trends and trajectories in public policy and cyberspace, focusing on how national security and citizens' privacy interests involve a delicate balance between the two to set the way forward.

In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss what value is at risk in case of cyber-attacks for the competitiveness of firms and how current technological developments may affect not only the economic advantages of states but also national security. Thanks to their guests Matteo Bonfanti in charge of International Strategic Relations at the Italian Cybersecurity Agency; Kevin Desouza, Professor, Queensland University of Technology; Enrico Mercadante from Cisco, Giuseppe Russo, from AWS and Oreste Pollicino, Professor at Università Bocconi.

In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss the need for strategic initiatives to enhance knowledge, skills, and capacity in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity challenges that institutions and organizations are facing require a diverse skill set, encompassing technical expertise, understanding of emerging technologies, regulatory knowledge, analytical capabilities, managerial skills, and effective communication abilities, to facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and secure cyberspace for safer societies and competitive organizations. They discuss this topic with Paolo Atzeni of Italian National Cybersecurity Agency, Javier Gomez Prieto from the European Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), Richard Harknett, Co-Director Ohio Cyber Range Institute; Francesca Lazzaroni from Spike Reply, Alberto Longhi from Leonardo and Karen Wetzel from the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).

In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss the intertwines of illegal activities, and organized crime in cyberspace and assess the pillars to govern, to prevent and to counter criminal infiltration at a transnational level with their guests Robert Christensen, Professor and George W. Romney Research Fellow at the Bingham Young University; Antonia De Meo, Director at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institue, (UNICRI); Corrado Giustozzi, Board member of CLUSIT, the Italian Association for Cybersecurity, Walter Rauti, Research Fellow of the PNRR Lab at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Walter Quattrociocchi, Director of the Data and Complexity for Society Lab at Sapienza Università di Roma

In this episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss the concept of national security and the approaches to achieving it in a hyper-connected world. They also discuss the meaning of cyberwar in different contexts, including Latin America and the Global South with their guests Andrea Calderaro, University of Cardiff and Robert Schuman Center, EUI; Fabiana Sofia Perera, William J Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; Elisa Pisanelli, PhD Candidate at the European University Institute and Center on Cybersecurity and Digitalization, ISPI and Raffaele Volpi, Strategic Advisor and geopolitical Analysis, former Chairman of the Italian Parliamentary Commission for Security.

In the first episode, Greta Nasi and Colin MacArthur discuss the principles underlying national and supranational cybersecurity strategies with their guests Roberto Baldoni (Director-General of the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency), Lorena Boix Alonso (Director for Digital Society, Trust & Cybersecurity at the European Union DG CONNECT), Natasha Cohen (Council on Foreign Relations, New York and Washington DC), Donatella Sciuto (Incoming Rector of the Polytechnic of Milan), Margaret Smith (assistant professor at the US Military Academy and member of the US Army Cyber Institute), and Stefano Zanero (Co-Director of the MSc In Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance, Bocconi University and Polytechnic of Milan)