Aspen Policy Academy

Cybersecurity Policy Gets Real at Aspen Policy Academy

  • Article Published November 3, 2025

This article originally appeared on InformationWeek on November 3, 2025.

By Richard Pallardy

Cybersecurity often seems like an abstraction to the everyday person – obscure programs, administered by tech nerds squirreled away in dark offices, that may or may not protect our interests. Betsy Cooper, founding director of the Aspen Policy Academy, wants to change that. Using her background at the Department of Homeland Security and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-term Cybersecurity, Cooper aims to assist consumers, cybersecurity professionals, and policymakers in making real, practical shifts in cyber practice from the ground up. 

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