Agenda

Making Sense of National Offensive Cyber Strategies

Wed May 10 / 09:10 - 09:45 CEST
02. Monica Kaminska - Assistant Professor of International Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University

Monica Kaminska

Assistant Professor of International Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University

This talk will explore state strategies of cyber conflict. In particular, it will consider how cultural risk acceptance and risk aversion shape national approaches to offensive cyber operations and responses to them, with an empirical focus on Russian operations and the recent move towards more proactive strategies (in lieu of deterrence) in the United States and the United Kingdom. The talk will also examine the cognitive effects of offensive cyber operations and their implications for policymaking.


Monica Kaminska is Assistant Professor of International Security and Technology at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. She is a researcher in The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and a trustee and board member of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative. Monica holds a PhD in Cyber Security from the University of Oxford.