Karl Grindal

Intro

Dr. Karl Grindal is a policy analyst and information security researcher based in New Hampshire, where he holds an Assistant Professorship in Security Studies at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Before joining UNH, Dr. Grindal held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and served as a collaborator with the Internet Governance Project.

Before pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as the Director of Research for Intelligent Cyber Research, LLC (ICR), where he developed the Geocyber Risk Index (GCRI), a comparative assessment of the cyber threats of operating a network in different countries in collaboration with the Eurasia Group. Before joining ICR, he provided strategic, policy, and research services as a Senior Analyst at Delta Risk, LLC.

From 2014-2017, Dr. Grindal served as the Executive Director of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA), a non-profit dedicated to advancing a research agenda on cyber conflict. Earlier with CCSA, he collaborated with Jason Healey as the Associate Editor to the book A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace 1986 to 2012.

He received his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy, has a Master's of Public Policy from Georgetown University, and completed his undergraduate studies with a BA in Government 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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