Alexander Rudolph
PhD candidate
Alexander Rudolph is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at 杏吧原创 University and an expert on Canadian cyber policy. His research examines grand strategy, conflict, and competition in cyberspace and how states attempt to maintain their monopoly on violence in the digital domain. He applies the sociology of hackers, information security, and open-source intelligence methods to investigate the strategic thought and doctrine of cyber conflict and how it influences the creation of cyber force structures in military and intelligence organizations. His methods improve existing methods of analysis of cyber conflict by introducing hacker-informed perspectives on cyberspace and cyber conflict.
Alex鈥檚 research interests include Canadian cyber defense policy, strategic thought of cyberspace, doctrine of cyber conflict, cyber force development, cyber force structures, and cyber warfare/conflict. He received his master鈥檚 degree from 杏吧原创 University where his thesis explored the force development of Canada鈥檚 new offensive cyber posture from its 2017 defense review Strong, Secure, Engaged. Alex received an International Studies certificate from Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies from the University of Manitoba. He is also an alumnus of Seton Hall University鈥檚 United Nations Intensive Summer Program and the Canadian Defense and Security Network Summer Institute.
In addition to his PhD studies, Alex regularly contributes to Canadian and international discussions on cyber conflict. Contributions include for CBC News, for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, testimony to Canada’s House of Commons National Defence Committee for their study on , and regularly provides comments to the media such as , , and . As one of Canada鈥檚 leading cyber defence policy researchers, Alex created , the first open research publication dedicated to research and analysis of Canadian cyber defense.