Dr. Nina Kollars is Associate Professor in the Cyber & Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI) within the Naval War College. Kollars is a scholar of future warfighting, military technological change, innovation, cybersecurity, and cyber warfare/information operations. Kollars is a published scholar, a public speaker, a writer, and a social engineering hacker. She has spoken at: DefCon hacking conference, SXSW, the National Security Council, CyCon, TEDx, and RUSI. She is also a certified bourbon steward.
We conducted a research project on communications resilience for Taiwan. We asked a simple question: If in conflict, can Taiwan's people, private sector, and government demonstrate the same kinds of resilience we saw conducted by Zelensky in Ukraine? This proposal will tell the story of our research process, our findings, and how we created a war game / table top exercise to conduct at DefCon and Blackhat Las Vegas in 2024 to try to answer our simple question.