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At a recent private D.C. dinner, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen gathered with academics and cyber experts from the private sector to talk candidly about urgent cyber threats and actions that DHS is taking to address them.

It was an intimate event, hosted by Atlantic Council President Fred Kempe and Dr. Catherine Lotrionte, the Brent Scowcroft scholar at the Atlantic Council, and the driving force behind the annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement (ICCE), one of the few internationally-focused cyber events that puts a premium on how evolving threats intersect and impact everyone.

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