Scott Borg

Scott Borg - U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit

Scott Borg is the Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU), an independent, non-profit research institute that investigates the strategic and economic consequences of possible cyber-attacks.  He is responsible for many of the concepts that are currently being used to understand cyber security and its implications for physical security.  He did pioneering research on the possible impact of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure industries and on a risk-based approach to cyber defense.  In collaboration with John Bumgarner, he is author of the US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List, the most comprehensive survey to date of cyber vulnerabilities.  He regularly advises a number of U.S. government departments on emerging cyber threats, on how to quantify cyber risks, and on assessing possible counter-measures.  Much of his recent work has been concerned with quantifying the contributions of cyber-attacks to military operations.  He has shown how economic concepts can illuminate the operations of dispatch centers.  He has also done extensive work on development of exercise scenarios.  Before being asked by government officials to tackle cyber-security issues, Scott Borg was one of the principal developers of Value Creation Analysis, a set of business strategy models for understanding how much value can be created by various types and components of value chains.  He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Massachusetts, Columbia, and other leading universities.  He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in International Security Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

Abstract of the Presentation:  The Cyber Defense Revolution: A Synthesis