Predicting Cyber Insurance and AI Futures with Josephine Wolff

To The Point - Cybersecurity

This week we dive into the hot topic of cyber insurance with Dr. Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Tufts University The Fletcher School and author of the book “You’ll See This Message When it is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches” (MIT Press 2018). We explore the dynamic industry of cyber insurance and key policy areas such as defining cyber war, the impact of the increase of ransomware the last two years (some stats put it at 150% increase!), and how to change security behaviors. She also shares insights on AI and the always looming theme of bias as well as the importance of always keeping a human in the loop. And, be sure to look out for her new book on cyber insurance with MIT Press coming out in August 2022.

Josephine Wolff - Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Tufts University's The Fletcher School

Josephine Wolff is an associate professor of cybersecurity policy and has been associated with The Fletcher School at Tufts University since 2019. Her research interests include international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, security responsibilities and liability of online intermediaries, government-funded programs for cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the legal, political, and economic consequences of cybersecurity incidents. Her book "You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches" was published by MIT Press in 2018. Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Prior to joining Fletcher, she was an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She received received a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems and M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton. As a student, she also spent time at Microsoft, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense.

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