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January 9, 2013: How Should the United States Operate Within the Cyber Domain?

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Mr. Joe Costa , The Cohen Group
Dr. James Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Twitter: @james_a_lewis)
Dr. Martin Libicki, The RAND Corporation

The United States has incorporated cyber security into its foreign policy, using the Stuxnet worm to destroy nearly 1,000 Iranian centrifuges in June 2012. Countries such as Iran are also using cyber technologies to cause disruptions such as the October 2012 cyberattacks on U.S. banks. With the growing threat of cyber attacks, how should the U.S. operate in this arena? Has cyber warfare made the United States more or less safe?

Mr. Joe Costa of the Cohen Group, Dr. James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS),and Dr. Martin Libicki of the RAND Corporation debate how the United States should operate within the cyber domain.