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Offensive cyber tools

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Spearfishing, denial of service, ransomware, wiper malware, zero-day exploits

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Wiper malware

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malicious software designed to delete data

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zero-day exploits

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flaw in software or operating system that can be exploited with no detection

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Nation-state threats

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russia, china, iran, and north korea

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russian criminal and hacking groups

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DarkSide, REvil, Evil Corp

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Russian cyber operators

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GRU, FSB, SVR

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GRU

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Russia’s premier military intelligence agency, physical and virtual world operations

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SVR

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Russia’s premier foreign intelligence agency, operates with a traditional foreign intelligence focus

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FSB

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Russia’s premier domestic intelligence agency

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Executive branch cyber roles and responsibilities

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Protect and promote, regulate and oversee, detect and disrupt, prosecute and penalize

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Protect and promote

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Department of Homeland Security
Department of State

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Regulate and Oversee

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Federal Trade Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Department of Commerce
Office of Management and Budget
Election Assistance Commission

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Detect and Disrupt

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DoD (CYBERCOM)
FBI
Intel Community (NSA)

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Prosecute and Penalize

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Department of Justice
Department of treasury

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(Cyber) Military Options

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Military, Diplomatic, economic and regulatory, homeland security and law enforcement, state and local government, private sector

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Classic security concepts

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Escalation, Retaliation, coercion, deterrence, attribution

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U.S. cyber operations doctrine

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Swift consequences, persistent engagement, defend/hunt forward

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Ways to address climate change

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new/improved technology
laws and regulations
economic incentives
social and psychological incentives

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programmable thermostats (PT)

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technical potential: 10-15% reductions in energy use
No difference in energy use among homes with and without a PT

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Behavioral wedge

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17 types of household actions that don’t require new regulation, could save 123 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 10

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Behavioral plasticity

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The proportion of current non-adopters that could potentially be induced to take action

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Initiative feasibility

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the likelihood that a change agent will adopt and then implement a mitigation initiative

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UK Behavioral insights team

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2010: started in cameron administration as part of gov
2013: partially privatized company with global offices

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Social and behavioral sciences team

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Started by obama white house 2015 (subcommittee of national science and technology council)
Disbanded under Trump (members moved to other gov offices and left for private companies)

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Injunctive norms
how people should behave
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descriptive norms
how people actually behave
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The boomerang effect example
marked pieces of petrified wood in park
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The Big Mistake
advocates/policymakers often try to highlight the frequency of bad behavior because they want to fix it
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climate of silence (not talking about climate change)
only 25% of americans regularly discuss climate change
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Behavioral spillover
the effects of an intervention on subsequent behaviors not directly targeted by that intervention
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Negative spillover
threat to behavioral approach, could undermine policy support, may need more exclusive focus on regulatory or price-based approaches s. voluntary approaches
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positive spillover
virtuous escalator, foot in the door effect, self-perception theory
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Negative spillover
single action bias, rebound/takeback effects, moral licensing
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moral hazard
fear that non-mitigation approaches to climate change will undermine support for mitigation
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risk compensation hypothesis (moral hazard)
learning about geo-engineering/adaptation--> reduces concern about climate change--> reduces support for mitigation
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Risk salience hypothesis (reverse moral hazard)
learning about geo-engineering/adaptation--> increases awareness/concern about climate change --> increases support for mitigation
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Technological approaches to climate change
adaptation
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Adaptation, geoengineering
sea walls/flood prevention Upgrades to electrical grids/air conditioning Agricultural changes (irrigation, changing crops)
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Geoengineering
solar geo-engineering and carbon dioxide removal
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solar geoengineering
reflect sunlight/heat back to space
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Carbon dioxide removal
capture and store atmospheric carbon
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Measured variables
Mediator, DV, Moderator
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Mediator
perceived threat of climate change
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DV
support for climate change mitigation policies
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Moderator
political ideology
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policy action
set of conditions seen as a problem definition of problem has emerged and received attention in important public arenas people are calling for action or intervention
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What is the role of science or research in defining social problems and then in deciding how best to intervene with policy?
Evidence-based policy
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Evidence-based policy
the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective programs and policies through application of principles of scientific reasoning Evidence= the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
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How does scientific information get to people who make policy decisions?
formal education and training scientific journals media legislative aids and other staff lobbyists social action and advocacy groups expert testimony government research
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Politics
the process by which groups of people make decisions social relations involving authority or power
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sources of interpersonal power
legitimate, reward, expert, and referent power
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legitimate power
formal power or authority
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Reward power
power to reward others who comply with preferences about decisions and actions
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Expert power
power comes from expertise/knowledge
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Referent power
power comes from others wanting to emulate or be loyal to group/individual
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what are barriers to a strong link between science and policy?
Scientific process limitations scientific results are hard to communicate timing: info not always available when decisions need to be made study results often contradict each other Interpretation of same results can vary Data collection/surveillance systems are designed in ways that value certain types of info over others
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Goal: Evidence-Based policy
scientists produce high-quality evidence findings are translated and disseminated policymakers use it wisely and appropriately
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Reality: policy-based evidence
scientist produce high-quality evidence findings are translated and disseminated advocates and policymakers cherry pick results to support agendas; ignore other evidence
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Policy analysis
client-oriented advice relevant to public decisions and is informed by data/evidence and social values
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types of policy analysis
prospective policy analysis descriptive policy analysis
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Prospective policy analysis
also called ex ante, pre hoc, anticipatory - predictive and prescriptive analysis
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Predictive analysis
projection of future states resulting from adopting particular alternatives
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Prescriptive analysis
recommends actions because they will bring about a particular result
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Descriptive policy analysis
also called ex-post, post hoc, retrospective - retrospective analysis and evaluative analysis
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retrospective analysis
descriptive interpretation of past policies; descriptive focus on what was implemented
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Evaluative analysis
summative program evaluation; were the purposes of the policy achieved; did the policy have an impact?
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two main types of prospective policy analysis
policy options analysis policy miscrosimulation models - types of economic analysis - sensitivity analysis
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Basic steps in policy options analysis
1. Verify, define, detail the problem 2. Establish Evaluation Criteria 3. Identify alternative policies 4. Evaluate alternative policies 5. Distinguish among alternatives 6. Monitor implemented policy
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Gostin framework
1. significant risk based on objective science 2. Intervention effectiveness by showing reasonable fit between means and ends 3. Economic costs are reasonable when compared with probable benefits 4. Human rights burdens are reasonable when compared with probable benefits 5. Benefits costs and burdens are fairly distributed so that services are provided only when needed and regulatory burdens are imposed only where a risk to community health exists
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Classic Framework for Policy Options Analysis
1. Establishing the Context: verify/define the problem 2. Establish evaluation criteria 3. Identify alternative policies 4. Evaluate the alternative policy options 5. Distinguish among alternatives 6. Implement and monitor policy
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4 types of simulation models
Microsimulation discrete event simulation agent-based modeling and simulation system dynamics simulation
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policy microsimulation models
computer forecasts that attempts to imitate or mimic the operation of gov programs/policies on individual units in the population under different sets of assumptions/interventions
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cost-benefit analysis
to determine which of alternative interventions, designed to achieve the same or differ4ent objectives, produces the greatest net benefit in terms of money
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cost-effective analysis
to determine which alternative interventions designed to achieve the same objective; produces the most of desired outcome for a given level of expenditure
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sensitivity analysis
a test of whether uncertainty about the value of a variable significantly influences the conclusion of an analysis
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Potential results of a sensitivity analysis
1. Demonstrate that a conclusion depends significantly on a particular assumption 2. Demonstrate that an assumption does not significantly affect a study's conclusion 3.Establish a minimum or maximum value a variable must have for an intervention to appear worthwhile
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Core pillars of the public sector
economy, efficiency, effectiveness, equity
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program
an organized response to eliminate or reduce a social problem where the response includes one or more objectives, performance of one or more activities, and the expenditure of resources
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Policy
A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a gov, business, or other type of organization
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program evaluation
the process that leads to judgements about the worth, effectiveness and efficiency of programs and strategies
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Different types of program evaluation
summative, process evaluation
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summative evaluation
did the intervention achieve?: - Impact evaluation: mediators along path - Outcome evaluation: end/long-term aims
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Process evaluation
focuses on implementation of a policy or program (was the policy/program implemented with the quality, content, coverage intended?)
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Internal validity
the research design allows for assessments about the effects of an intervention without the threat of rival hypotheses or alternative explanations
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Threats to internal validity
history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, loss to follow up, regression to the mean, differential selection
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External validity
the ability to generalize the findings of a research study outside of the population included in the research and the specific way in which the research was conducted

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