A Department of Homeland Security Emeritus Center of Excellence led by the University of Maryland

Rhyner Washburn

Rhyner Washburn

Cyber Intelligence Researcher, START

University of Maryland

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Research Areas:

Counterterrorism

Topics:

Cybersecurity and Cyberterrorism Innovation and Technology International Relations Media and Terrorism Not Terrorism Related Political Conflict and Violence Red Teaming Security Policy Social Media Threat Assessment Weapons and Tactics

Regions:

East Asia Global South Asia

Researcher on START Projects

Advancing U.S. CWMD/CWMT Capabilities in Support of the SIGMA+ Program through Development of Anticipatory Human Social Systems Models and Adversary Weapon Selection Decision Processes

March 2020 to March 2022

Developing Impact and Effectiveness Assessment Tool for Influence Operations

January 2021 to May 2022

Selected Publications

Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset (Research Brief)

Call to Action: Mobilizing Community Discussion to Improve Information-Sharing About Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure (Conference Paper)

Determining Extremist Organizations' Likelihood of Conducting Cyber Attacks (Conference Paper)

News References

Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) researchers present at 79th Midwest Political Science Association Conference (News)

Unconventional Weapons and Technology team present research on influence operations at Laboratory for Analytic Sciences symposium (News)

START research travels far in the cyber-physical domain (News)

START team develops dataset on cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (Featured Research)