Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet: Report of the CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy in the Digital Age

Monday, June 10, 2013
Speakers
John D. Negroponte
Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates; Former Deputy Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence; Task Force Co-Chair
Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Task Force Project Director
Samuel J. Palmisano
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation; Task Force Co-Chair
Presider
Vivian Schiller
Chief Digital Officer, NBC News

The CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet, finds that as more people and services become interconnected and dependent on the Internet, societies are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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