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- 2014
- Chapter
Better Timing of Cyber Conflict
By: Elisabeth Paulson and Christopher Griffin
In this paper, we construct a model of cyber-weapon deployment and attempt to determine an optimal deployment time for cyberweapons using this model. We compare and contrast our approach to that in Axelrod and Iliev (R. Axelrod and R. Iliev. Timing of cyber conflict....
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Paulson, Elisabeth, and Christopher Griffin. "Better Timing of Cyber Conflict." In Proceedings of the Third ASE International Conference on Cyber Security. Los Angeles, CA: Academy of Science and Engineering, 2014.
- 2021
- Article
Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services
By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least...
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Keywords:
Domain Name System;
Resilience;
Entropy;
Internet and the Web;
Infrastructure;
Performance Effectiveness;
Safety;
Cybersecurity
Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain, and Yunhan Xu. "Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (2021).
- 2023
- Article
MoPe: Model Perturbation-based Privacy Attacks on Language Models
By: Marvin Li, Jason Wang, Jeffrey Wang and Seth Neel
Recent work has shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can unintentionally leak sensitive information present in their training data. In this paper, we present Model Perturbations (MoPe), a new method to identify with high confidence if a given text is in the training...
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Li, Marvin, Jason Wang, Jeffrey Wang, and Seth Neel. "MoPe: Model Perturbation-based Privacy Attacks on Language Models." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2023): 13647–13660.
- March 2024
- Teaching Note
SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST
By: Frank Nagle and David Lane
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 723-357 & 723-368.
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
the program will help him expand on the cybersecurity work he did in the military. “For nine years, I concentrated on defense work, and I wanted to come here to get a broader experience and understand more of the business side—to see how...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Black-box Training Data Identification in GANs via Detector Networks
By: Lukman Olagoke, Salil Vadhan and Seth Neel
Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the underlying distribution, if...
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Olagoke, Lukman, Salil Vadhan, and Seth Neel. "Black-box Training Data Identification in GANs via Detector Networks." Working Paper, October 2023.
- Web
Contacts & Resources | Information Technology
faculty, staff, and Doctoral students can login to the HBS IT Services and Support Portal to search IT services and documentation, check service status, or submit a help ticket. Let us know if there are other topics on cybersecurity best...
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Julio Cedeno
Julio met his wife, Sarah, at the university. After graduation, they moved to Houston where Julio began a six-year tenure with Chevron. Balancing act of work, marriage, and education Julio had interned with Chevron between his junior and senior years, contributing to...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Voatz
By: Mitchell Weiss and Maddy Halyard
Nimit Sawhney scrolled through the tweet stream on his phone, unsure of what to make of it on August 6, 2018 or how to respond. Voatz, the Boston-based startup he co-founded and led, provided a mobile-voting platform. In March of 2018, had successfully piloted the new...
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- October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST (A)
On December 12, 2020, SolarWinds learned that malware had been inserted in its software, potentially granting hackers access to thousands and thousands of its 300,000 customers. General Counsel Jason Bliss needed to orchestrate the company response without knowing how...
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Keywords:
Cyberattacks;
Cybersecurity;
Corporate Disclosure;
Crisis Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Legal Liability;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Nagle, Frank, George A. Riedel, William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "SolarWinds Confronts SUNBURST (A)." Harvard Business School Case 723-357, October 2022. (Revised September 2023.)
- March 2022
- Article
From Proprietary to Collective Governance: How Do Platform Participation Strategies Evolve?
By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp
When platform leaders change the rules guiding who can access and control a platform, the strategies of those who create value from the platform can be upended. Little research examines how platform participants adapt their strategies when a platform leader changes the...
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Keywords:
Platform Governance;
Access;
Crowdsourcing;
Applications and Software;
Employees;
Leadership Style;
Cybersecurity;
Risk Management
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Rebecca Karp. "From Proprietary to Collective Governance: How Do Platform Participation Strategies Evolve?" Strategic Management Journal 43, no. 3 (March 2022): 530–562.
- November 2023
- Article
Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space
By: René Raab, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener and Bjoern Eskofier
The European Commission's draft for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to empower citizens to access their personal health data and share it with physicians and other health-care providers. It further defines procedures for the secondary use of electronic...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Cybersecurity;
Information Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Health Industry
Raab, René, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener, and Bjoern Eskofier. "Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space." Lancet Digital Health 5, no. 11 (November 2023): e840–e847.
- September 2, 2021
- Article
The Digital Economy Runs on Open Source. Here's How to Protect It.
By: Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Frank Nagle
Free and open source software (FOSS) is essential to much of the tech we use every day—from cars to phones to planes to the cloud. While traditionally, it was developed by an army of volunteer developers and given away for free, companies are increasingly taking a more...
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Keywords:
Free And Open-source Software;
FOSS;
Open Source Distribution;
Applications and Software;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Policy;
Cybersecurity
Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila, and Frank Nagle. "The Digital Economy Runs on Open Source. Here's How to Protect It." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 2, 2021).
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
participating in Israel: Startups and Venture Capital the experience of learning by doing in a country recognized globally as a tech hub. “I was fortunate to work with great teammates and an exciting partner —an automotive cybersecurity...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
doubt that it could radically transform sectors ranging from energy to finance and cybersecurity to transportation, but the potential is still mostly theoretical as scientists can’t quite grok all the implications yet. And a number of...
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- December 2023
- Case
TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In a world where attention is a scarce commodity, this case explores the meteoric rise of TikTok—an app that transformed from a niche platform for teens into the most visited domain by 2021—surpassing even Google. Its algorithm was a sophisticated mechanism for...
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Keywords:
Social Media;
Applications and Software;
Disruptive Innovation;
Business and Government Relations;
International Relations;
Cybersecurity;
Culture;
Technology Industry;
China;
United States;
India
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now." Harvard Business School Case 824-125, December 2023.
- July 16, 2015
- Article
How Small Businesses Can Fend Off Hackers
By: Lou Shipley
If you wanted to hack a business, which one would you pick: A Fortune 500 company with a large digital-security budget and a team dedicated to protecting its cyberassets? Or a small enterprise that doesn’t employ a single IT security specialist? Security breaches at...
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Keywords:
Hack;
Data Security;
Small Business;
Analytics and Data Science;
Safety;
Information Technology;
Cybersecurity
Shipley, Lou. "How Small Businesses Can Fend Off Hackers." Wall Street Journal (July 16, 2015).
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
to have had as much resonance among readers as it did among CEOs who made it a summer reading favorite. Perhaps others agreed with Mary L, who commented that, “Today’s tech enabled networks pose no greater threat than any other networks in days gone by.” What’s new?...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown...
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Deborah Blagg