"Cyber Warfare" - A World Affairs Forum Breakfast Presentation

Nov. 21, 2012 - PRLog -- The public is invited to attend an Ambassadors’ Roundtable series breakfast presentation by Lawrence Husick on Cyber Warfare. This event will take place at the Stamford Yacht Club on December 12, 2012.

Mr. Husick has over thirty years of experience as a technology consultant, computer system designer, and software author, and an intellectual property lawyer. He is a partner in Lipton, Weinberger & Husick and an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University in the Whiting Graduate School of Engineering and in the Zanvyl-Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Biotechnology Program.  

He is also a Foreign Policy Research Institute Senior Fellow and co-director of its Center for the Study of Terrorism. He applies his background in both law and technology to the study of terrorist tactics and counter-terrorism strategies, with a particular focus on technology leverage as a defining characteristic of the modern terrorist. He also co-directs the Institute’s Wachman Center Program on Teaching Innovation.

Mr.Husick is also a founder of several entrepreneurial ventures, including Infonautics, PocketDoctor.com and TeraDiscoveries and is presently working on a book about evolving cyberthreats.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Environmental Chemistry from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.

The cost is $50 for the general public, $30 for Guests of Ambassadors’ Roundtable Series Members and $30 for Forum Series Members. Coffee will begin at 7:15 A.M. and breakfast will be at 7:30 A.M., followed by the presentation and Q&A.   The program concludes at 9 A.M.

Reservations and advance payment are required by December 7.  Space is limited. Please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org to reserve.

The World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America.