Session 3: Forging Digital Standards: Challenges in Intellectual Property and Supply Chains

January 26 (US) | 15:00 HONOLULU / 21:00 WASHINGTON

January 27 (ASIA) | 09:00 SINGAPORE / 10:00 TOKYO/SEOUL

ABOUT THIS EVENT

In this session, Priya Mahajan, Head of Asia Pacific Public Policy & Regulatory Counsel at Verizon Communications, and Dr. Andreas Kuehn, Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation America, tackled how the high tech-sector and other industries can protect their sensitive data and intellectual property from malicious actors. With overtures of decoupling reverberating across the region, this session explored best practices and standards adopted by the US and Singapore in strengthening their cyber defenses and resiliency across technical, policy, and cognitive dimensions from potential cyber-enabled IP theft. The session was moderated by Benjamin Ang, Senior Fellow, Deputy Head of Centre of Excellence for National Security, and Coordinator of Cyber and Homeland Defence Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS).

SPEAKER BIOS

Andreas Kuehn
Andreas Kuehn
Dr. Andreas Kuehn is a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation America where he leads research on international cybersecurity cooperation within ORF America’s Cyberspace Cooperation Initiative. His work focuses on the new risks and challenges in international security at the intersection of emerging technology, cybersecurity, and technology governance.

His report, Weathering Tech Nationalism: A Security and Trustworthiness Framework to Manage Cyber Supply Chain Risk, examines trustworthiness and security in global ICT supply chains and outlines a framework to build trust and manage third-party risk. Other areas of recent work include: the implications of U.S. cyber strategy on international cybersecurity, the cybersecurity cooperation paradox, supply chain security capacity building, smart cities as sociotechnical systems, and cyber insurance. Dr. Kuehn also organizes and participates in international convenings, Track-2 meetings and working groups to foster trust through dialogue and exchange.

Prior to joining ORF America, Dr. Kuehn was a Senior Program Associate at the EastWest Institute, where he led the development of EWI’s breakthrough group efforts and worked on U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China cybersecurity issues. Before that, he was a Cybersecurity Fellow at Stanford University and an adjunct researcher at RAND Corporation. He received his M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Zurich and holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University.