The United States, France, and the UK have emerged as key players in countering the proliferation of commercial hacking tools, but divergent strategies threaten the efficacy of individual frameworks.
Emma Landi was a research assistant with the Technology and International Affairs program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she supports the program’s research agenda on cybersecurity policy and emerging technologies. Prior to joining Carnegie, Landi was a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and supported the CSIS Ukraine Economic Reconstruction Commission. She has also conducted research on world leaders’ priorities for international development at the research lab AidData and supported the Executive Office at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
Landi graduated with a B.A. in International Relations from the College of William and Mary – University of St Andrews Joint Degree Program.
The United States, France, and the UK have emerged as key players in countering the proliferation of commercial hacking tools, but divergent strategies threaten the efficacy of individual frameworks.
Discussing law enforcement efforts to "hack the hackers."
Western law enforcement agencies have become are responding to international cyber crime using through their own disruptive cyber operations. This trend is generally positive, but it also raises some new policy challenges. Emma Landi and Gavin Wilde outline how law enforcement agencies are 'hacking back' and what this trend's policy implications.
Western law enforcement agencies have become more assertive in responding to international cyber crime, including through their own disruptive cyber operations. This growing trend is generally a positive one, but it also poses new policy challenges—both domestically and abroad.