About - Staff Member - Courtney Lang
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Courtney Lang
Courtney Lang serves as Vice President of Policy, Trust, Data, and Technology. In this role, she manages ITI’s global cybersecurity policy portfolio, including on issues related to 5G and nextgen network security, cybersecurity certification and labeling, cybersecurity standards, cyber supply chain security, and cybersecurity incident reporting. She also leads ITI’s global AI policy advocacy efforts, with a particular focus on fostering the trustworthy and responsible use of AI. While at ITI, she has testified on AI regulation in front of the Brazilian Senate and on critical infrastructure security in front of the Australian Parliament.
Prior to joining ITI, Courtney worked at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration (ITA), where she focused on understanding the business priorities of U.S. technology companies and devised strategies to help them overcome trade barriers in markets overseas. Courtney developed deep expertise in different industry segments, including mobile & wireless communications and cybersecurity. During her time at ITA, Courtney worked to promote policies that would facilitate trade and support innovation. She established and led the Trade in the Digital Economy Working Group under the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue, aimed at addressing digital trade barriers in Brazil, as well as a long-term project to promote risk-based approaches to cybersecurity in the Asia-Pacific. She also worked on developing and executing a strategy aimed at supporting U.S. competitiveness in the 5G telecom technology sector.
Courtney has been quoted in The New York Times, Protocol, The Washington Post, Inside Cybersecurity, and other publications. Courtney holds an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in Political Science from Duke University.
Blog posts by Courtney Lang
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Four Recommendations to Improve the Cyber Resilience Act
(November 06, 2023)
EU legislators are preparing for the next round of trilogue negotiations on the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which has the important goal of improving cybersecurity across the European single market. ...
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The EU AI Act: What it Means for Global AI Policymaking
(June 22, 2023)
On June 14, the European Parliament voted to approve its text of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, which would levy obligations on developers of high-risk AI systems as well as developers ...
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What Tech Wants to See in the Upcoming U.S. National Cyber Strategy
(July 22, 2022)
As the Biden Administration develops its National Security Strategy (NSS), the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) is also undertaking an effort to develop a National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) ...
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Cyber Incident Reporting Demands an Interoperable, Global Approach
(March 18, 2022)
On March 15, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill into law, which included innovative provisions that introduce new cyber incident reporting obligations for critical infrastructure ...
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Taking a Closer Look at Cybersecurity Incident Reporting
(June 16, 2021)
Recent cybersecurity incidents, notably the sophisticated nation-state backed supply chain compromise of SolarWinds and the profoundly disruptive ransomware attack of the Colonial Pipeline, have placed ...