2025 Aspen Cyber Summit

Top US cyber leaders will headline the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit on November 18.

Help us celebrate a decade of dialogue and action. Register now to join us in Washington, DC.

John P. Carlin

Strategic Advisor and Chair Emeritus for Cybersecurity, Aspen Digital

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John P. Carlin is co-head of Paul Weiss’s Cybersecurity & Data Protection practice and a deeply accomplished litigator who advises industry-leading organizations on matters involving privacy and cybersecurity, crisis management, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), sanctions and export control, white collar defense and internal investigations. He has served as a top-level official in both Republican and Democratic administrations, including as the Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, as the top national security official for the U.S. Department of Justice, as the Chief of Staff of the FBI and as an experienced Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Carlin has been featured or cited as a leading authority on cyber and economic espionage matters by numerous major media outlets, including The New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Wall Street JournalThe Los Angeles TimesUSA Today, CBS’s 60 minutes, NBC’s Meet the Press, PBS’s Newshour, ABC’s Nightline and Good Morning America, NPR, CNN and Vanity Fair, among others.

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So You Want to Hack Back

Traditional defense can be insufficient against sophisticated tactics, giving urgency to the question of whether entities should “hack back.”