Welcome to Policy @ DEF CON!
DEF CON welcomes policymakers and technology professionals to join Policy@DEF CON and participate with our community of knowledgeable experts. We need to work together.
Over the past 30 years the DEF CON community, has evolved and grown along with the cyber domain. We understand that creating a safer digital society requires collaboration between security and policy experts. DEF CON provides a space for representatives of all areas of security to come together to educate and engage each other.
Tech policy is being written as we speak and we believe including diverse expert voices will improve outcomes across the policy-technology spectrum by bridging the gap between technical and policy practitioners. Senior government officials, policy experts, nonprofit and the private sector, security researchers, hackers, academics and technologists from around the world all come together at Policy @ DEF CON.
First Annual Policy @ DEF CON Cyber Contingencies Survey
This year for DEF CON 33 we tried something new. We surveyed 56 cyber security experts for their thoughts on the likelihood and potential impact of 14 different geopolitical cybersecurity scenarios. The experts were from a variety of backgrounds, both technical and non-technical, in an effort to get a broad and fully informed sense of how the potential risks might impact the American public in the coming year.
We plan to make this a yearly survey, unveiling the results at DEF CON each summer. The goal is to have a set of data that can eventually be compared year over year in an effort to inform policy discussions and help further bridge the gap between hackers and policy makers.
Here is the data for Year 1, sorted by Tier Demographics
For DEF CON 33, 52 people received the survey and 21 responded. Of the total surveyed 21 were women and 31 were men. In future years we hope to have a better balance of respondents from variety of backgrounds.