Powered by cable. Next, a look at us cyberstrategy and policy with the director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency, jen easterly, and Us Ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy, nathaniel fix and other federal officials. They also discussed Artificial Intelligence and challenges from adversaries like china and russia. From the atlanta counsel, this runs an hour. Good afternoon. My name is graham bookie, Vice President of Technology Programs at the atlanta counsel. Welcome to the discussion and the dc launch of the department of states first ever International Cyberspace and digital policy strategy. This is an exciting conversation, americas top diplomat, and techies in San Francisco as opposed to foreign capital. And highlighting increasing centrality for the role in the world. A comprehensive outlook and more importantly an affirmative plan in a near increasing geo. Will competition the dizzying rapid technological change. It includes Guiding Principles in four areas of actions that combine lines of efforts for digital solidarity. And shaping the Global Future together. I say that every single day. And and a newly formed Capacity Building deeply aligned with the strategy. And the central part of this is behind it as the department of state, organizers around the strategy and secretary blinken announced the creation of a new bureau of digital policy, and specifically technology and americas Foreign Policy apparatus and digital economy, and working across the us government, implementing an ambitious strategy. Ambassador at large, jen easterly, the Cyber Security in a for stricter Security Agency at the department and Homeland Security and alan davidson, and administrator for National Telecommunications and information, saying the full title. Thank you for the distinguished panelists and thank you for those who joined in person and online. Feel free to ask them. Very excited to get into this. First ever strategy, that was the main organizing function and the main Energy Behind it. And thanks to the atlanta counsel. And the great colleagues on this issue. The 3 of us are here, and not nearly the department of state. It came in the end daa. Some things have changed, and the geopolitical landscape in the intervening years. This strategy was intended. A typical christmas tree, and Decision Making and policymaking and implementation, and in the tech domain. And rights respecting for lunar technology. And what they opt into. Within that framework, they recognized in the rationale for this group here. Previous strategy like this one talked about cybersecurity, cant talk about cybersecurity without talking about the policy related to undersea cables and satellites and data centers. For computing and Artificial Intelligence. Another guiding principle here is affirmative vision. This strategy does not want a future that is characterized by a balkanized internet and if thats the future we are moving towards it is incumbent upon us to offer a positive firm, inclusive vision that they can opt into. One could be forgiven for causing this a Cyber Strategy which a lot of headlines around the rollout, the new Cyber Strategy incorporates, goes far beyond that to your point. I turn to jen for a question, the actual cyber element of it which is International Strategy and you work at the department of Homeland Security. How do you see the role in International Strategy especially on Critical Infrastructure and cybersecurity and beyond that. How is that going . Congratulations to nate for the strategy and then particular forgetting Matthew Broderick at the rollout, starting two of my favorite hacker movies, wargames and ferris buehlers day off. The department of Homeland Security, cyber knows no boundaries. Everything we do as a partnership agency, whether that is through industry, academia, the Research Community and International Partners and that is why having us here on stage, we have a role in defending cyberspace which is inherently global and international and that is why i was glad to be here. Even more to the point about Critical Infrastructure. I was at morgan stanley, you think about just the interconnectivity, interdependence and vulnerabilities to Critical Infrastructure which is very global. Morgan stanley, Financial Institution and 40 one countries, head of the center that had 8 locations around the world and the private sector company, we had to be able to work with partners around the world including governments, including regulators and it shows Critical Infrastructure, the International Component is foundational while nate was rolling out the cyber and digital strategy, when meeting australian counterpart, south korean, ukrainians tomorrow and because we have to operate with the visibility at each of the partners around the world who see cyberspace from their own perspective, we have to come together to connect the dots across the world so we can understand the risk broadly, to likeminded nations, International Partnerships, at americas cyberdefense agency. I will turn to alan. Houses and tia play in particularly with industrial policy side and multistakeholder relevant of internet governance, where does that play into International Strategy . Thank you for having me as well and congratulations to the whole team for quarterbacking articulation of strategy at the federal government approaching cyberspace, guided by the idea of Building Technology in a way that keeps peoples lives better and promote human progress. So much of what we do in policy space is touched on in this strategy. This full stack approach to the issues in front of us, whether it is how do we build a broadband infrastructure at home and around the world, doing good internet governance, think about issues like privacy or ar policies, governance principles, generally for these technologies and all that is work we are doing informed by and needs to inform our International Global strategy as well. An Effective International policy can start with a solid approach to domestic issues. We have worked, this administration is working on a Solid Foundation at home on these issues, in the process of administering 50 billion worth of funding that bridged the Digital Divide in this country, make sure everybody who doesnt have an Internet Connection can get one by the end of this decade. This will make the country more resilient and inform how we think about deployment around the world, how to help other countries as they think about the internet as a tool for developing and deployment. Issues like investing in multistakeholder model, internet governance, globally, part of how to approach domestically, fitting with our approach globally and it is great to have a strategy that articulates a good vision Going Forward. Two of the Common Threads we picked up through the strategy are the concept of making sure we have an affirmative vision just and articulation of a long list of things we stand against especially when it comes to tech policy and not tech policy as one thing but something that increasing debit increasingly touches on everything as well as this need to bridge how we Design Technology at home, in areas around the world. To agree on every single element of policy. Theres a lot of room for collaboration and communication. And a conceptual retort, something we are for to things like the systemic approach from ccp or china as well as russia or authoritarian systems and their approach to how technology was designed and governed and communicated around the world. Do you mind unpacking digital solidarity . What is essential to recognize here, one phrase, look at what is in and also its negative image. Something thats not in this strategy is the descriptor likeminded in classifications of groups. This is not an attempt to bifurcate or fragment and an attempt to provide an affirmative vision, unifying set of principles around rights respecting development and use of technology that can bring others, the vast middle, the billions and billions of people in the world who do not live in states that align with the United States and do not live in states that necessarily have a strongly different conception of the future. Digital solidarity, to the notion of digital sovereignty which is something we are hearing more and more. I use the term deliberately, allies and partners. Digital sovereignty can be attractive. It is more than a seductive mirage. The obligations to its citizens, it tries to make sense of the reality that these issues are intrinsically crossborder and we do in the world today face a different set of actors with a different role of technology in the world. As jim said, so much of what we are doing in the United States actually is of great interest to partners. Offering up what they do is on the top five list of things we get requests for all the time. Our Foreign Policy can often only be as strong as domestic policy. The approachs the United States takes to broadband at home directly underpins whatever moral authority or legitimacy to advocate for these principles. There is one component, a new pledge, which we are big nerds on the atlanta counsel. Can you share that effort and specifically how it plays into your International Engagement . I dont think you need to self identify. I have known graham for many years. Let me make one point to what nate said. Nate and i traveled to ukraine together. One of the things about taking that trip together, going to ukraine, poland, was just the optics of the top Cyber Technology diplomat and Cyber Defense agency together leveraging multiple instruments of National Power in a way that messages our full support for information sharing, collaboration, Capacity Building. Is a powerful symbol, you wind the clock back to five years ago, there was no hero of cyberspace and digital policy. Some of the advancements that have been made, that i think are fundamentally helping to bring greater security and resilience to cyberspace. One of the big things weve been focused on over the past year is this idea of secure by design which is an International Concept going to the first principle of a resilient ecosystem and it really is a tremendous effort that is a tough one. I call it secure by design revolution. What we are trying to do is focus, to make up for decades of technology being built for speed to market and futures and not security, go back to the days when the internet was first invented and folks involved in inventing, the pioneers, security was never in our minds at that time. It is at the top of priorities, the products we use every day, our foremost states and secure in us, we are excited to have 68 of the worlds leading software, Technology Manufacturers sign on to this pledge that says they commit to 7 key areas of Building Security into their products, thats just a pledge. The beauty to me is rooted in the principle of radical transparency which is having specific things the companies are committing to as well as evidence that shows effectively implemented these 7 areas, and you all are interested in it. It is important we recognize that this is absolutely a Global Endeavor and when we put out our principles on security by design, we are proud to join arms with International Partners including the second version of an and 13 of International Partners that we launched for cyberwe can. To me, making sure the technology we rely upon is as safe and secure as possible is truly the only way to catalyze the sustainable and scalable approach to a cybersecure ecosystem around the globe. The secure by design issue is an interesting issue because it is a could go point of National Cyberstrategy and a critical point of International Strategy that bridges together a bunch of things. Importantly, it includes a number of International Government partners but Industry Partners are not just us companies which is a reflection of how the space is growing. This year is a global election year, we wont have more elections since 2038 and around the world is a blessing. And we have the digital compact. It is free and interoperable. To keep internet in the multistakeholder. And how important are those processes, how we are engaging in those. The growth of the internet itself is a testimony to the power of multistakeholder models, the motion of people, good faith, Diverse Communities coming together in the spirit of solving problems of common interest. These models of bringing together expertise of the private sector, academia, Civil Society to solve the hard problems that the internet places. Part of what made the internet successful, it lends itself to making hard decisions, Building Infrastructure in the face of rapid technological change. Whether it is at ietf standards bodies, the i can organization, names and numbers, acrosstheboard we had organizations that have been incredible to our success, that has been very decentralized without being governed by any single government or governance structure. That model is increasingly questioned around the world. In part we have really hard, there have been authoritarian regimes that wanted to undermine the model, trying to seek more control, more centralization in internet governance. It can be a little friendly fire. Sometimes it is likeminded countries that are themselves in the spirit of trying to solve problems doing things that might undermine this multistakeholder model and we face a year where there are increasing questions of the Global Digital compact is when it shouldve. The future of some of these existing structures is out there. One of the things that is so important about this strategy is articulation of a positive vision. We are doubling down on the importance of openness, doubling down on the notion, as a powerful tool for solving problems in the spirit of solidarity, you look at the problems we have, governance, how to deal with, questions that have come up, is working together for hard problems, a way to bring in broad communities to solve hard problems in a way thats faithful to our values and the moral authority we bring to the world. A followup which is asked anonymously by the way, how do you anticipate groups interacting with principles articulated in the strategy when it comes to the multistakeholder system to include those groups. And where are they great partners in these efforts, how do you see that working. Let me get specific on a specific, how these processes unfold into the earlier question. Broadly, my first trip in this, running up to the election for the secretarygeneral of the telecommunication union. The First Mission in this role, focused on governance issues. For a meeting for the uns first committee, deliberative body that created the framework, the thread connecting those two days is, International Organizations to abhor a vacuum. When the United States stepped back others fill the void. For the operating system, the us has to be engaged, they are functionally distributed for multistakeholder, to make that concrete in the last couple years, lets talk about ai. When chat gpt was released in fall of 2022 all of a sudden, ai became topic of interest for citizens around the world and by extinction, interest for governments, it had been a focus but it is front and center. The white house started with the leading ai developers. Voluntary by definition doesnt constrain information, the power of innovation economy is a massive for overall, not want to constrain. They couldnt get sucked into a long torturous legislative process moving so quickly. In a regulatory structure, that gave a substantive meaningful set of principles for ai Safety Security