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Lennart Maschmeyer

Lennart Maschmeyer is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Lennart’s research examines the subversive nature of cyber power, and the parallels between the operational mechanisms and strategic value of cyber operations compared to covert operations.

His other research interests include the role of non-state actors in cyber conflict, specifically private threat intelligence providers. Lennart is the founder co-chair of the FIRST Threat Intel Coalition SIG, an initiative to assist vulnerable civil society organizations in preventing, detecting and mitigating cyber attacks.