Overview
Justin Sherman is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, where he teaches on cybersecurity, data privacy, and technology policy — and founded and runs its research program on data brokerage and runs its research program on technology supply chain risk.
Justin is the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm focused on technology, policy, and geopolitics. They provide research, risk, advisory, training and simulation-building, and expert witness services on cybersecurity, data privacy, tech policy, supply chain, and geopolitical risk to a wide range of nonprofit, startup, Fortune 500, law firm, and other clients. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, a fellow at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford University, a contributing editor at Lawfare, and an op-ed columnist at Slate.
Justin has consulted and advised everyone from CEOs to investors, attorneys, product managers, communications strategists, and threat intelligence teams, including in volatile, complex, and high-risk scenarios. He provides expert witness services on litigation matters related to cybersecurity and data privacy.
Justin has testified to both houses of Congress; spoken at the White House, the United Nations, and NATO; and briefed White House officials, members of European Parliament, and many other policymakers around the world. He has published hundreds of articles and numerous papers; appeared on BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Marketplace, NPR, PBS Newshour, and Showtime’s “VICE”; and had his work featured on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His scholarship and research includes work on cybersecurity policy, data brokerage, data privacy, internet infrastructure and geopolitics, digital supply chain risk, national security reviews of technology, US-China tech policy, and Russian cyber, information, and technology strategy, policy, and operations.
He earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Computer Science and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.
Justin is the founder and CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm focused on technology, policy, and geopolitics. They provide research, risk, advisory, training and simulation-building, and expert witness services on cybersecurity, data privacy, tech policy, supply chain, and geopolitical risk to a wide range of nonprofit, startup, Fortune 500, law firm, and other clients. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, a fellow at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford University, a contributing editor at Lawfare, and an op-ed columnist at Slate.
Justin has consulted and advised everyone from CEOs to investors, attorneys, product managers, communications strategists, and threat intelligence teams, including in volatile, complex, and high-risk scenarios. He provides expert witness services on litigation matters related to cybersecurity and data privacy.
Justin has testified to both houses of Congress; spoken at the White House, the United Nations, and NATO; and briefed White House officials, members of European Parliament, and many other policymakers around the world. He has published hundreds of articles and numerous papers; appeared on BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Marketplace, NPR, PBS Newshour, and Showtime’s “VICE”; and had his work featured on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His scholarship and research includes work on cybersecurity policy, data brokerage, data privacy, internet infrastructure and geopolitics, digital supply chain risk, national security reviews of technology, US-China tech policy, and Russian cyber, information, and technology strategy, policy, and operations.
He earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Computer Science and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.