Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
This session examined the increasing extent to which digital, cyber-vulnerable products and services made and run by the private sector can be considered critical infrastructure, and how nations can cooperate with one another to protect them. The panel discussed roles for the tech sector and governments in taking a national interest approach to defending the systems on which the a country’s interests depend, as well as the interests of key allies.
Speakers included: Andrew Clark, Director-General and Chief Executive of New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Stephanie Crowe, Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and Miriam Howe, Head of Consulting for National Security & Government at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. The conversation was moderated by Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar with the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
This session examined the increasing extent to which digital, cyber-vulnerable products and services made and run by the private sector can be considered critical infrastructure, and how nations can cooperate with one another to protect them. The panel discussed roles for the tech sector and governments in taking a national interest approach to defending the systems on which the a country’s interests depend, as well as the interests of key allies.
Speakers included: Andrew Clark, Director-General and Chief Executive of New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Stephanie Crowe, Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and Miriam Howe, Head of Consulting for National Security & Government at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. The conversation was moderated by Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar with the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
