Resilience Planning for Maryland Defense Communities

Biography

Christopher Webster is the Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies Program Director at the University of Maryland Center for Cyber, Health, and Hazard Strategies. Chris has more than fifteen years of experience helping clients meet cybersecurity, strategic planning, and emergency management challenges. He has helmed a wide range of projects – from serving as the Chief Operating Officer of a cybersecurity firm specializing in cryptographic identification, to conducting mass transit system vulnerability assessments, to helping establish the new Montgomery County Office of Food Systems Resilience. While widely varied, Mr. Webster’s work shares the common themes of requiring complex  system-level problem solving, and the application of emerging or novel  technologies.

Since 2019, Mr. Webster has served as a lecturer at law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he teaches Cybercrimes. His academic research centers on cybersecurity policy, as well as the practical and ethical  application of artificial intelligence, especially in the contexts of public health and public safety.