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  • Nonresident fellow
  • Senior Policy Advisor, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Will Loomis

Will Loomis is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). He is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Loomis previously served as an associate director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, where he led the program’s work on critical infrastructure cybersecurity and software supply chain risk management. He was also formerly the chair of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s Cybersecurity Policy & Technology Discussion Group and an organizer for Policy at DEF CON.

Originally from New York, he holds a BA in Political Science, with a focus on International Relations and Securities Studies from Colgate University. He is also a Certified Bourbon Steward.

December 2022

Wargaming to find a safe port in a cyber storm

by Daniel Grobarcik, William Loomis, Michael Poznansky, Frank Smith

With the Maritime Transportation System increasingly reliant on cyberspace, how can cybersecurity be improved within key nodes of this critical infrastructure, particularly cargo ports?
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September 2022

Policy hackers take Vegas

by Will Loomis, Safa Shahwan Edwards, Trey Herr, Stewart Scott, and Sarah Powazek

Every year, in the early August heat, thousands of hackers from around the world head to Las Vegas, Nevada for a series of cybersecurity conferences known as Hacker Summer Camp. This year, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative – and a few friends – decided to ship out to see what all the hype is about.
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February 2022

Loomis in Lawfare: Defending fire a need for policy to protect the security of open source

Open-source software has served as an
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