Cyber and technology challenges will continue to increase because of rapid innovation, persistent threat actors and heightened geopolitical competition. From hostile state activity to professional cybercrime, through to complex supply chains and the emerging role of AI, there is a pressing need for informed debate across expert communities.
RUSI’s Cyber and Tech research group aims to develop a strong evidence base for policymakers and practitioners, drawing on the experience and knowledge of in-house RUSI experts and a multidisciplinary Associate Fellow network.
Our work covers a range of topics across four core programme areas:
- Cyber Strategy and Statecraft: focusing on the development and implementation of cyber policy and strategy, cyber as a tool of modern statecraft, and cyberspace as an arena for geopolitical competition.
- Cyber Threats and Resilience: understanding and assessing cyber threats from state and non-state actors, and evaluating response, risk management and mitigation approaches.
- Disruptive Technologies: examining how disruptive technologies impact national security, how states pursue strategic advantage, the relationship between technology and economic growth, and the role of technology in an era of geopolitical competition.
- Cloud Technology for National Security and Defence: analysing the role of hosting services and infrastructure in the national security and defence space.
Our approach
RUSI researchers take complex technical topics and communicate them in plain language for non-technical audiences, cutting through hyperbole and alarmist headlines.
We have a global outlook and have grown an international community of experts examining UK and international approaches to cyber and technology.
The team has a track record of notable events convening policymakers, industry leaders, and academics from the UK and around the world to explore the intersection between cyber, technology and national security.
Programmes
View the research programmes and projects by the Cyber research team.
Cyber Strategy and Statecraft
We analyse the development and application of cyber policy and strategy, cyber as a tool of statecraft and cyberspace as an arena for geopolitical competition.
Cyber Threats and Resilience
We focus on understanding and assessing cyber threats from state and non-state actors and evaluate responses and risk management approaches to mitigate them.
Disruptive Technologies
We examine the impact of disruptive technologies on national security, economic growth and the role of technology in an era of geopolitical competition.
Cloud Technology for National Security and Defence
We analyse the role of hosting services and infrastructure in the national security and defence space.
The UK Cyber Effects Network seeks to build and strengthen a UK community of interest that fosters informed debate around the theory and practice of offensive cyber and other cyber effects operations.
Mapping practical understandings of responsible cyber behaviour and cyber policies across the world to inform a conceptual global cyber policy framework.
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Our team
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber and Tech
Cyber and Tech
Conrad Prince CB
Distinguished Fellow and Senior Cyber Adviser
Hugh Oberlander
Senior Programme Manager, Cyber and Tech
Cyber and Tech
Jamie MacColl
Senior Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Dr Louise Marie Hurel
Senior Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Dr Gareth Mott
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Joseph Jarnecki
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Dr Pia Hüsch
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Prerana Joshi
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Sophie Williams-Dunning
Research Analyst
Cyber and Tech
Fellows
Distinguished Fellows
General (Retd.) John Allen
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Robert Hannigan CMG
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Ian Levy
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Ciaran Martin CB
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Anne Neuberger
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Sir Rob Wainwright KCMG
RUSI Distinguished Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Senior Associate Fellows
Professor Gary Brown
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Madeline Carr
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Chris DiBona
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Tobias Feakin
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Mary Haigh
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Craig Jones
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Kenneth Payne
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Associate Fellows
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Oz Alashe MBE
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Casey Babb
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Robert Black
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Ingvild Bode
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Natasha Buckley
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
August Cole
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Jamie Collier
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Daniel Cuthbert
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Keith Dear
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
William Dixon
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Jen Ellis
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Professor Ann M. Fitz-Gerald
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Noran Fouad
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech; GP-RCB Work Stream co-lead for MENA
Miriam Howe
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Ludovica Meacci
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Adrian Nish
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber ad Tech
Dr Jason R. C. Nurse
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Huw Roberts
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Devika Shanker-Grandpierre
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Max Smeets
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Dr Tim Stevens
RUSI Associate Fellow, Cyber and Tech
Publications
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