Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft

Cyberspace raises hard questions about national security. How dangerous are cyber threats? Does cyberspace transform war? Do hackers shift the balance of power? Why are critical systems so insecure in the first place? Has commercial industry become the front line of national defense? And how should governments respond to the mounting threat? Answers to such questions vary depending on whether we interpret hacking as warfare, or something else.

 

Join us on September 22, as Professor Jon R. Lindsay, reconsiders cybersecurity through the lens of secret statecraft in his book Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft.

 

Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His research explores the role of emerging technology in global security. He is the author of Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell, 2025) and Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell, 2020), co-author with Erik Gartzke of Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics (Oxford, 2024), and the editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford, 2019) and China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford, 2015). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in computer science and B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He also served in the U.S. Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.