About
Our Company
Global Cyber Strategies is a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm. We help organizations navigate the complex and volatile digital world — from cybersecurity and privacy threats to the opportunities and risks posed by technology policy and geopolitics. Our team has assisted a range of organizations navigate the complex and volatile world of technology, policy, and geopolitics:
Nonprofits
Startups
Fortune 500 companies
Law firms
Investors
US government organizations
Our Founder
Justin Sherman is an expert on cybersecurity and data privacy, technology and internet policy, and geopolitics. At Global Cyber Strategies, he helps clients navigate complex technological, policy, and geopolitical issues.
Justin is also an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Previously, he spent time at New America, the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law, among others.
Justin has testified before Congress, spoken at NATO and the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum, and briefed White House officials, members of European Parliament, and many other policymakers around the world. He has published widely and appeared on national and international television and radio. He earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Computer Science and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.
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Justin Sherman is an expert on cybersecurity and data privacy, technology and internet policy, and geopolitics. At Global Cyber Strategies, he helps clients navigate complex technological, policy, and geopolitical issues.
Justin is also an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. He is a fellow at the Starling Lab at Stanford University and an advisor to the Christchurch Call to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, a community of more than 120 governments, online service providers, and civil society organizations working to eliminate violent extremist content on the internet. Prior to his current positions, he spent time at New America, the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law, among others. He was a fellow at Duke Law School’s Center on Law & Technology and a fellow at Stanford University’s U.S.-Russia Forum, where he participated in Track II dialogues with Russian counterparts on international security issues.
Justin has testified before Congress, spoken at NATO and the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum, and briefed White House officials, members of European Parliament, and many other policymakers around the world on topics ranging from cybersecurity risk to the open data market to Russian cyber and information strategy. He has written hundreds of articles — including for The Atlantic, Barron’s, The Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate Magazine, The Washington Post, and WIRED — and numerous reports, book chapters, journal articles, and privately commissioned assessments; been interviewed on BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, NPR, PBS NewsHour, SHOWTIME, and many other national and international programs; and had his work featured on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
He earned his M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Computer Science and his B.A. in Political Science from Duke University.
