Rafal Rohozinski

Rafal Rohozinski (born 26 January 1965) is a Canadian expert and practitioner active in the fields of digital resilience, cyber warfare, and the globalization of armed violence. He is the co-founder of SecDev Group and Secdev Foundation, the founder of Zeropoint Security, and currently a senior fellow [1] at Canada's Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is also a founder and principal investigator of two significant cyber research initiatives: the Infowar Monitor,[2] a joint project between The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, which examined and documented emerging trends in cyber warfare; and, the OpenNet Initiative,[3][4] a collaboration with the Citizen Lab, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University (now the SecDev Group) and the Oxford Internet Institute, which documents patterns of Internet censorship worldwide. He is a principal investigator and co-author of the 2009 Ghostnet study examining Chinese cyber-espionage.[5][6][7]

Rafal Rohozinski
Born (1965-01-26) January 26, 1965
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityCanadian
OccupationPrincipal at the Secdev Group , CEO Zeropoint Security Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation
Known forCo-founder of the The SecDev Group, Psiphon, Secdev Foundation and Zeropoint Security

Rohozinski is a founder of several companies active in developing new approaches to digital risk and resilience. He is the CEO and Principal of the SecDev Group,[8] a Canadian digital risk agency that among other things developed the concept of armed violence for OECD.[9] He is also CEO Zeropoint Security,[10] a cyber risk and security[11] start-up. Rohozinski was formerly the director of the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge (2000-2008),[12] a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies (2002-2004), and a senior visiting fellow at the International Development Research Centre (Canada), where he developed conceptual approaches to the studying the telegeography of conflict zones, including case study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[13] Between 2007 and 2011 he served on the board of the Estonian E-government Academy.[14] He was a two term Board member of the Canadian Association for Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), and, sits on the board of the Canadian International Council (CIC).[15] He was also a senior fellow for cyber security and future conflict at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.[16]

Rohozinski is the author of numerous studies and published articles on topics relating to the security and development dimensions of the information revolution including two studies for the Centre for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College: Shifting Fire[17] examining "information effects" in counterinsurgency and stability operations, and New Media and the Warfighter (the latter based on a case study of the 2006 Hizbullah-Israeli conflict). Rohozinski is the co-editor and contributor to Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (MIT press)[18] and a follow-up volume entitled Access Controlled examining the emergence of complex information controls in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe countries, including an analysis of strategic cyber-war dimensions of the Russian-Georgian conflict.[19] He has also published on Stuxnet and its implications for warfare in cyberspace,[20] and, together with Robert Muggah, defined the concept of open empowerment as a driver of economic, social, and criminological change in Latin America.[21]

Rohozinski’s research and professional activities focus on geopolitical risk and resilience. His work was foundational to the methodology,[22] that and research conducted by OpenNet Initiative and the Infowar Monitor as well as the digital risk models developed by the SecDev Group and Zeropoint security. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer who held an appointment at US Joint Special Operation University and is currently a faculty member with the G100 Network "Leadership in the Digital Era" program.[23]

See also

References
  2. Infowar Monitor FAQ: Principal Investigators
  3. About the ONI: Principal Investigators
  4. The State Of Cyber Security: When Cyber Terrorism Becomes State Censorship
  5. Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries
  6. Unmasking ‘GhostNet’, NPR Interview with Rohozinski and Deibert
  7. Major cyber spy network uncovered
  8. Ghostnet Buster
  9. Armed Violence Reduction: Enabling Development
  11. "Big Data and Bigger Breaches With Alex Pentland".
  12. "Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  13. Mapping the Palestinian Web Space, Sept - Nov 2007
  14. Estonian E-Government Academy: Board members
  15. "National Capital (Ottawa)". The CIC. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  16. "IISS". www.iiss.org. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  17. Shifting Fire: Information Effects in Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations
  18. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering Archived 2009-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  19. A New Breed Of Hackers Tracks Online Acts of War
  20. Farwell, James P.; Rohozinski, Rafal (2011-02-01). "Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War". Survival. 53 (1): 23–40. doi:10.1080/00396338.2011.555586. ISSN 0039-6338.
  21. Muggah, Robert; Rohozinski, Rafal, eds. (2016-03-14). Open Empowerment: From Digital Protest to Cyber War (First ed.). The SecDev Foundation. ASIN B01D0LVXCY.
  22. Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness
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