Stewart Scott
Stewart Scott is an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the the Atlantic Council Tech Programs. He works on the Initiative’s systems security portfolio, which focuses on software supply chain risk management and open source software security policy.Â
Stewart earned his B.A. from Princeton University at the School of Public and International Affairs along with a minor in Computer Science. His course of study centered on misinformation, computer science, social media policy, online extremism, journalism, and American political and economic history. He joined the Atlantic Council after interning with its Cyber Statecraft Initiative.
May 2022
Buying down risk: Cyber liability
Despite software's ubiquity and omnipresent vulnerability, conventions around liability for software producers are still informal and rarely enforced.
May 2022
Buying down risk: Memory safety
Some coding languages, like C and C++, allow for a common, exceptionally dangerous bug called a memory safety error, comprising up to 70 percent of industry vulnerabilities.
May 2022
Buying down risk in the cyber ecosystem: Arguments for the national cybersecurity strategy
The private sector has enormous influence over the cybersecurity ecosystem. Security investments stemming from enterprise and prioritizing a more resilient environment over reacting to emerging incidents can have massive impact at scale.
