Robert Knake
Writer
Rob Knake is a Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on internet governance, public-private partnerships, and cyber conflict.
Knake served from 2011 to 2015 as Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council. In this role, he was responsible for the development of presidential policy on cybersecurity, and built and managed federal processes for cyber incident response and vulnerability management. He worked to establish presidential policy that created the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center and Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations.
Before joining government, Knake was an International Affairs Fellow-in-Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he completed the manuscript for Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It and authored the Council Special Report “Internet Governance in an Age of Cyberinsecurity”. Some of his other books include The Fifth Domain and Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity.
Twitter: @RobKnake
