about the blog

CyberWonk.com provides background, news and analysis on the ever-increasing volume of issues being tackled in the world of the often-abused moniker ‘cyber’ policy.

We use the Washington definition of ‘Cyber’—as shorthand for the intersection of networked computing (namely the public internet, its hardware, protocols and public/private infrastructure) and national security, broadly defined (especially intelligence and defense).  Secondary in focus, but by no means importance, are the related topics of privacy, free speech, and the information economy.

The CyberWonk writes incognito.  Having worked on national security and technology issues in academia, policy think tanks, on Capitol Hill, he now serves as a policy advisor on cyber-defense and internet policy.  When he first entered the field, ‘cyber’ meant something entirely different, and it was decidedly NSFW.

Credits:  Even incognito, blogging is a collaborative effort.  The following deserve far more credit than can be done justice here: Paul S. (for early guidance on the site’s launch and ongoing contributions), Ian W. (for generously contributing the site’s splash graphic), Laura F. at Columbia Law, who helped during the first three days of this site’s inception, and the New Oxford American Dictionary (for attempting, and valiantly failing, to define ‘cyber’).