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 three 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.
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.
Our team
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber and Tech
Cyber and Tech
Conrad Prince CB
Distinguished Fellow and Senior Cyber Adviser
Dan Marks
Research Fellow for Energy Security
Cyber and Tech
Louise Marie Hurel
Research Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Jamie MacColl
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
Hugh Oberlander
Programme Manager, Cyber
Cyber and Tech
Fellows
Professor Ciaran Martin CB
Distinguished Fellow; Former Chief Executive Officer, National Cyber Security Centre
Sir Rob Wainwright KCMG
Distinguished Fellow
Professor Madeline Carr
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
Dr Tobias Feakin
Senior Associate Fellow
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Oz Alashe MBE
Associate Fellow; CEO and Founder at CybSafe
Dr Jason R. C. Nurse
Associate Fellow; Associate Professor in Cyber Security, University of Kent
Dr Mary Haigh
Senior Associate Fellow
Cyber and Tech
Robert Hannigan CMG
Distinguished Fellow; Former Director of GCHQ
Miriam Howe
Associate Fellow
Dr Casey Babb
Associate Fellow; Senior Analyst, Public Safety Canada
Professor Gary Brown
Senior Associate Fellow
William Dixon
RUSI Associate Fellow
Dr Adrian Nish
Associate Fellow; Head of Cyber Propositions, BAE Systems
Dr Jamie Collier
Associate Fellow; Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor, Mandiant
Dr Max Smeets
Associate Fellow; Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative
Chris DiBona
Senior Associate Fellow
Jen Ellis
Associate Fellow, Founder of NextJenSecurity
Henry Sanderson
Associate Fellow
Dr Tim Stevens
RUSI Associate Fellow
Craig Jones
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Noran Fouad
GP-RCB Work Stream co-lead for MENA; RUSI Associate Fellow
Ingvild Bode
RUSI Associate Fellow
Professor Kenneth Payne
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Ben Bowie
RUSI Associate Fellow
Publications
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