Dr. Walter Gary Sharp, Sr. serves as an Associate Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense where he is responsible for providing advice on international and national security law issues related to the worldwide activities and operations of the U.S. Armed Forces. A noted and published authority on national security law and strategy, his current areas of responsibility include providing legal advice on all aspects of national and agency level strategic communication; information operations; offensive and defensive computer network operations; critical infrastructure protection; the Proliferation Security Initiative; weapons of mass destruction; terrorism and counterterrorism; maritime security operations; peace, stability, and humanitarian operations; interagency and coalition operations; law of war; rules of engagement; and deployment of forces.
The cyber threat is the most pervasive and pernicious threat facing the United States today. Its mention does not immediately conjure visions of the catastrophic horrors that would result from an attack using a weapon of mass destruction, but today’s cyber threat is a very real and present danger.
