Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council is a D.C.-based think tank founded in 1961 that focuses on international affairs. This program grant will support the Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, an annual competition in which students from across the globe compete in developing recommendations for tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. The challenge is intended to train the next generation of cybersecurity policymakers, expose them to real world crisis scenarios, and build a network of judges and alumni across the world.

The Atlantic Council is a D.C.-based think tank founded in 1961 that focuses on international affairs. This renewal grant will support the Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, an annual competition in which students from across the globe compete in developing recommendations for tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. The challenge is intended to train the next generation of cybersecurity policymakers, expose them to real world crisis scenarios, and build a network of judges and alumni across the world.

A grant to the Atlantic Council would support its Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge, which is the leading higher education competition devoted to national security cyber policy recommendations. The competition offers students a better understanding of the policy challenges associated with cyber policy and cyber conflict. It will help build a multidisciplinary network of university and graduate students drawn from a wide array of disciplines who are interested in cybersecurity policy.