{"id":32522,"date":"2018-03-27T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=32522"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:41:17","slug":"policy-leaders-forum-samantha-ravich-on-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/03\/27\/policy-leaders-forum-samantha-ravich-on-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Leaders Forum: Samantha Ravich on Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/03\/Ravich2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/03\/Ravich2-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ravich2\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/03\/Ravich2-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/03\/Ravich2-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2018\/03\/Ravich2-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samantha Ravich, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney,\u00a0 was hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University on March 27, 2018 for a wide-ranging discussion on international cybersecurity challenges.<\/p>\n<p><span>The event was part of the Policy Leaders Forum series\u00a0at the Pardee School that\u00a0brings senior international policy makers to Boston University for important policy conversations with guests including faculty, students and experts from across Boston University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ravich discussed the increasing cybersecurity challenges facing the United States and the difficulties of defending against cybersecurity threats from countries including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.\u00a0Ravich also\u00a0outlined some of the current challenges facing Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to serving as\u00a0<span>Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, Ravich was\u00a0the Republican Co-Chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community. Ravich\u00a0served in the White House for\u00a0more than five\u00a0years where she was the Vice President\u2019s representative on Asian and Middle East Affairs as well as on Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Proliferation. She is now an advisor\u00a0on cyber and geo-political threats and trends to numerous technology, manufacturing, and services companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span><em>Policy Leaders @BUPardeeSchool<\/em><span>\u00a0series brings\u00a0<\/span><span>senior international policymakers to Boston University for conversations with faculty, students and guests. Previous speakers in the\u00a0series have included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/09\/29\/sen-daniel-coats-dni-meets-with-pardee-school-students-faculty\/\">Senator Daniel Coats<\/a>, the United States Director for National Intelligence;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/05\/26\/policy-leaders-forum-ugandan-prime-minister-ruhakana-rugunda\/\">Dr. Rukakana Rugunda<\/a>, Prime Minister of Uganda;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/05\/02\/policy-leaders-forum-former-kentucky-gov-steve-beshear\/\">Steve Beshear<\/a>, the former Governor of Kentucky;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/01\/26\/policy-leaders-forum-pardee-school-hosts-dr-woo-yoon-keun\/\">Dr. Woo Yoon-keun<\/a>, Secretary General on the\u00a0National Assembly of South Korea; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/05\/04\/sen-whitehouse-talks-climate-change-at-pardee-school\/\">Senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>\u00a0(D-RI).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Ravich, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, discussed international cybersecurity challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[10745,9399,8574,9989,10726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32522"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32557,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions\/32557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}