Karl Grindal

Intro

Dr. Karl Grindal is an Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where he explores how institutions, standards, and policies shape information security. His ongoing projects investigate diverse topics like the governance of digital identity, broadband resilience in the arctic, and factors shaping state-level cyber capabilities. He teaches in the Cybersecurity Policy and Risk Management M.S. program, an interdisciplinary degree that trains students to build resilient, secure, and successful organizations.

Before joining UNH, Dr. Grindal was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and contributed to the Internet Governance Project. He also previously worked in cybersecurity consulting, delivering policy, strategic, and research-based services for Intelligent Cyber Research and Delta Risk LLC.

Additionally, Dr. Grindal held positions with the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA), a non-profit dedicated to advancing a research agenda on cyber conflict. At various points he served as an Editor, including Associate Editor to the book A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace 1986 to 2012. He also served as Executive Director from 2014-2017.

Dr. Grindal received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, an M.P.P. from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Work

Research

Milton Mueller, Karl Grindal, Vagisha Srivastava. (2023) "Non-governmental Governance of Trust on the Internet: The CA/Browser Forum" TPRC 2023

Karl Grindal. (2022) "Artist collectives as the origins of ddos the strano network and electronic disturbance theater", IEEE Annals of Computing History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 30-42.

Mueller, Milton and Karl Grindal. (2022) " Information as Power: Evolving US Military Information Operations and their Implications for Global Internet Governance", The Cyber Defense Review, 7(2), 79-98.

Karl Grindal What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions (PhD Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2021)

Mueller, Milton, Karl Grindal, Brenden Kuerbis, and Farzaneh Badiei. (2019) "Cyber Attribution: Can a New Institution Achieve Transnational Credibility?" The Cyber Defense Review 4, no. 1: 107-22.

Karl Grindal (2019) Trade regimes as a tool for cyber policy", Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 19-31.

Milton Mueller and Karl Grindal (2019) "Data flows and the digital economy: information as a mobile factor of production", Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 71-87.

Author, "The Effect of Agency Backlogs on the Number of Freedom of Information Act Requests that Are Granted graduate thesis" (master's thesis, Georgetown University: 2011)

Books

Project Editor, Cyber Conflict After Stuxnet: Essays from the Other Bank of the Rubicon (CCSA: 2016)

Project Editor, Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback (Atlantic Council: 2015) 

Associate Editor and Contributing Author,  A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986-2012 (CCSA: 2013)

Contributor, Addressing Cyber Instability (CCSA: 2012)

Articles

Co-author, Persistent Engagement or Preparing the Battlefield? (Internet Governance Project, June 2019)

Co-author, Cyber Nationalism and Digital Trade: IGP Workshop Report (Internet Governance Project, June 2018)

Co-author, Can we Fight InfoOps Without Breaking the Internet? (Internet Governance Project, June 2018)

Author, Regulating Cyber through Trade Regimes (Internet Governance Project, March 2018)

Co-author, Opinion: A better tech platform for Hillary Clinton (Christian Science Monitor, July 2016)

Co-author, Legal Profession Prepare: Your IP Is Being Ransomed  (LegalTech News: 2015)

Co-author, Changing Cyber-Psychology (LegalTech News: 2015)

Photos

Contact

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