Jason Healey is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. Prior to this, he founded the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, where he created the global “Cyber 9/12” student cyber-policy competition. He has twice worked cyber issues in the White House, including as a founding member of the Office of the National Cyber Director. He has taught and mentored hundreds of students who have gone onto careers at the White House, the finance sectors, civil society, and everywhere in between.
He is the editor of the first history of conflict in cyberspace, A Fierce Domain: Cyber Conflict, 1986 to 2012 and helped create the world’s first cyber command in 1998, the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense, where he was one of the pioneers of cyber threat intelligence. He served as the vice chair of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), created Goldman Sachs’ first cyber incident response team, and later oversaw the bank’s crisis management and business continuity in Asia. He is a founding member and past president of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association and is a review board member of the DEF CON and Black Hat security conferences. Jason started his career as a US Air Force intelligence officer with jobs at the Pentagon and National Security Agency and is a certified board director (NACD.DC) and information systems security professional (CISSP).
