Washington DC

With the growing sophistication and volume of cyber attacks to critical U.S. infrastructure and the increasing security breaches coming from negligent or malicious insiders, government agencies and industry are working closely to implement the most efficient and effective ways to protecting government’s most critical asset – information. The rise of Government 2.0 signals the emergence of IT innovation and the Web as a platform for fostering efficiencies within government and citizen participation. How can we harness these innovations to decrease waste and increase productivity?

Join Richard A. Clarke, the author of Cyber War: What It Is and How to Fight It, for an in-depth discussion of this growing threat. A national security adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, Clarke traces the rise of the cyber age and profiles the unlikely characters and places at the epicenter of the battlefield. He recounts how foreign cyber spies hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense and the control systems for U.S. electric power grids.

“Obviously you need to preserve some tools—you still have to go after the bad guys.” —anonymous Obama administration official, February 2009