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About the Stanford Cyber Initiative
The Stanford Cyber Initiative studies “cyber-social systems,” in which cyber technologies interact with existing social systems. Social systems comprise the various organizations of human activity, including markets (e.g., consumer, health, education), political arenas (e.g. election campaigns), and other communities (e.g., the workplace). Cyber technologies encompass networked digital technologies – notably, the internet – and extend, for instance, to infrastructure control systems and wireless biomedical devices. Thus, cyber-social systems, both large and small, use embedded digital structures and devices to facilitate, enhance and scale human endeavors.
The Future of the Cyber Workforce: The Cyber Initiative supports undergraduate research, education, and exploration of cybersecurity as a career. We sponsor the student group Applied Cybersecurity, including two competition teams in policy analysis and network defense. The Stanford Applied Cyber Student Team took 2nd place at the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Western Regionals hosted at Cal Poly Pomona, March 24-26. In only their 2nd season of competition the Stanford team has established themselves as legitimate contenders among an impressively competitive field that included CSU Northridge, Cal Poly Pomona, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, University of Advancing Technology, Arizona State University, and CSU San Bernardino.
Stanford's all-undergraduate cyber policy analysis team also participated in the the Atlantic 9/12 Cyber Policy competition, March 17th-18th, and made it to the semifinal round out of 40 teams competing. The team developed policy recommendations for a framework that would give companies limited permissions to hack back against cyber attackers.
To learn more about the Cyber Initiative's work, read more news from our researchers and students.
2017 RFP has concluded
july 29, 2017
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal; the awarded projects will be announced shortly.
Two Stanford Cyber Initiative faculty elected to the AAAS
April, 2017
Congratulations to John Mitchell and George Triantis, who were elected fellows of the AAAS this year. A member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who has been a continuous member for the four year period leading up to the year of nomination, may, by virtue of such meritorious contribution be elected a Fellow by the Council. Examples of areas in which nominees may have made significant contributions are research; teaching; technology; services to professional societies; administration in academe, industry, and government; and communicating and interpreting science to the public. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council from the list of approved nominations from the Section Steering Groups. More information and a full list of new Fellows is available at the AAAS members website.
Blockchain Protocol and Security Engineering '17
February 3, 2017
Our Blockchain Protocol and Security Engineering conference brought 300 crypto enthusiasts to Stanford for two days of talks; see videos and slides at the conference homepage, and read a Coindesk news report of highlights from the first day.
