How to disrupt cybercrime networks
In a speech, engineer and inventor Charles F. Kettering once pointed out, "There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really unde...
Amy Hogan-Burney is the General Manager and Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity Policy &
Protection (CPP). CPP includes Microsoft’s Digital Security Unit, Cybersecurity Policy and Digital Diplomacy
teams, and the Digital Crimes Unit and is a global team of attorneys, security strategists, investigators,
engineers, and analysts. CPP is responsible for managing compliance with cybersecurity regulations while
shaping evolving requirements, advocating for digital peace and rules of nation state conduct in
cyberspace, developing productive partnerships with the public and private sector to address
cybersecurity and crime, and seeking to disrupt nation state actors and cybercriminals through legal and
technical methods.
Prior to leading CPP, Ms. Hogan-Burney led the Digital Crimes Unit and the Privacy Compliance team
during the implementation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. She started her career at
Microsoft managing the Law Enforcement and National Security team ensuring Microsoft’s compliance
with law enforcement and national security legal obligations.
Before entering the private sector Ms. Hogan-Burney was an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice,
Federal Bureau of Investigation. She received her Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering from the Catholic
University School of Engineering and her Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic
University.
In a speech, engineer and inventor Charles F. Kettering once pointed out, "There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really unde...
Cybercrime is a major threat to global prosperity. Even now, in the midst of the worst public health crisis in a century, the cybercriminals just keep at it.