08.26.25 | Profs and Pints: State-Sponsored Cyber Espionage
Safa Qureshi Safa Qureshi

08.26.25 | Profs and Pints: State-Sponsored Cyber Espionage

Profs and Pints DC presents: “State-Sponsored Cyber Espionage,” an examination of hackers as instruments of economic warfare, with William Akoto, assistant professor at American University’s School of International Service and leading expert on the political economy of cyber conflict.

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U.S. Government Responses to State-Sponsored Cyberattacks (2014-2024)
Sam Bradshaw Sam Bradshaw

U.S. Government Responses to State-Sponsored Cyberattacks (2014-2024)

What is the appropriate response to a state-backed cybersecurity breach? Most governments make no public response whatsoever, choosing in many cases not to even acknowledge the incident has occurred, but for more than a decade, the U.S. Government has experimented with a variety of different legal, technical, and economic retaliatory tactics. This talk will review three different sets of responses by the United States: indictments of state-sponsored hackers, technical take-downs of state-affiliated hacking infrastructure, and economic sanctions aimed at cutting off revenue to state-backed entities responsible for cyberattacks.

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