Who: Dr. Melanie Garson is the cyber policy and tech geopolitics lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Her work focuses on cyber policy, the geopolitics of AI, computing and the Internet, the rise of tech companies as geopolitical actors, data governance as well as the intersection of disruptive tech, foreign policy, defense and diplomacy. She is also an associate professor in international conflict resolution and international security in the department of political science at University College London where she teaches new and emerging technologies and the future of conflict in the digital age. She is a scheduled speaker at Cybertech Europe 2024 in Rome October 8 and 9.
Topic: Cyber resilience
Quote: “Having a plan is like the difference between an elevator and an escalator. If you are on an elevator and something happens you are stuck until someone rescues you. If you are on an escalator and something happens you can still walk up the stairs, you do it more slowly, but you are still operational. My message is first you should identify where is the systemic risk and then design escalators.”
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