Biography

Dr. Gil Baram received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University’s School of Political Science, Government and International Relations, and was the recipient of the Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. Her postdoctoral research at CISAC focuses on national decision-making during cyber conflict. Dr. Baram explores the shift in the longstanding convention of silence on cyber conflict as a covert practice. She studies the reasons state actors are increasingly addressing cyber intrusions publicly despite their covert nature, and uses new data and combined methods to investigate when and under what circumstances they are likely to decide various attribution strategies.

Previously, Dr. Baram has held fellow positions with the Centre of Excellence for National Security at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University and served as Head of Research at the Israeli think tank Yuval Ne'eman workshop for Science, Technology and Security. She holds an M.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in Security Studies from Tel Aviv University.

publications

Journal Articles
March 2023

A sliding scale of secrecy: toward a better understanding of the role of publicity in offensive cyber operations

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Case Studies
February 2021

Staying Current: an Investigation into a Now-Suspended Facebook Network Promoting the Palestinian Democratic Reform Current

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In The News

Cyber Security
News

A sliding scale of secrecy: toward a better understanding of the role of publicity in offensive cyber operations

In recent years, offensive cyber operations are becoming another tool among many in the diplomatic toolbox of states, with countries discussing cyberattacks more openly than before.
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Commentary

How the cyberwar between Iran and Israel has intensified

Three things to know about the not-so-covert cyber-operations between these two adversaries
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