Josephine Wolff

Josephine Wolff

Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Cybersecurity Policy
Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering
Director, Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs
Associate Dean for Research

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Education

  • PhD, Engineering Systems, MIT, USA
  • MS, Technology & Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • AB, Mathematics, Princeton University, USA

Biography

Josephine Wolff is a professor of cybersecurity policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her research interests include liability for cybersecurity incidents, cyber-insurance, government responses to cyberattacks, and the economics of information security. She is the author of two books: "You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches" (MIT Press, 2018) and "Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks" (MIT Press, 2022). Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Prior to joining Fletcher, she was an assistant professor of public policy and computing security at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Selected Publications

Wolff, J. (2022). Cyberinsurance Policy Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks. MIT Press.

Wolff, J., & Atallah, N. (2021). EARLY GDPR PENALTIES Analysis of Implementation and Fines Through May 2020. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION POLICY, 11, 63-103. doi:10.5325/jinfopoli.11.2021.0063

Wolff, J. (2021). "CYBERWAR BY ALMOST ANY DEFINITION": NOTPETYA, THE EVOLUTION OF INSURANCE WAR EXCLUSIONS, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CYBERATTACKS. CONNECTICUT INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL, 28(1), 85-129. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Wolff, J. (2018). You'll see this message when it is too late The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches. MIT Press.

Wolff, J. (2016). What we talk about when we talk about cybersecurity: security in internet governance debates. Internet Policy Review, 5(3).

Wolff, J. (2016). Perverse Effects in Defense of Computer Systems: When More Is Less. Journal of Management Information Systems, 33(2), 597-620. doi:10.1080/07421222.2016.1205934