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Allan Friedman is the Director of
Cybersecurity Initiatives at National Telecommunications and Information
Administration in the US Department of Commerce.
Prior to joining the Federal government,
Friedman was a noted cybersecurity and technology policy researcher. Wearing
the hats of both a technologist and a policy scholar, his work spans computer
science, public policy and the social sciences, and has addressed a wide
range of policy issues, from privacy to telecommunications. Friedman has over
a decade of experience in cybersecurity research, with a particular focus on
economic, market, and trade issues. He is the coauthor of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar:
What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014).
His work has taken him between the technical
and policy research world. From 2014-215, he was a Research Scientist
at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington
University based in the Cyber
Security Policy Research Institute. Before that, Friedman was a Fellow at
the Brookings Institution, and the
research director for the Center for Technology Innovation. Prior to moving
to Washington, he was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harvard University
Computer Science department, where he worked on cyber security policy,
privacy-enhancing technologies and the economics of information security.
Friedman was also a Fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, where he worked on the Minerva
Project for Cyber International Relations. He has also received fellowships
from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
and the Harvard Program on Networked Governance. He has a degree in Computer
Science from Swarthmore College, and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard
University.
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