Deborah Karagosian serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Cyber Defense Review – the Department of Defense’s scholarly cyber journal. This West Point graduate and decorated combat veteran earned the Bronze Star and Bronze Order of Mercury while serving at the tactical front in Korea, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq, where she pioneered operational cyber techniques alongside infantry divisions. Her Pentagon experience informing the Army Chief of Staff on cyber budgets and operations helped establish a novel conceptual framework for treating networks as weapon systems.
After transitioning to the private sector, Karagosian swiftly expanded her impact, winning contracts worth over $2 billion for leading technology companies. She dedicates herself to developing future cyber talent by coaching high school teams and mentoring students. Her unique expertise on Chinese and Russian information warfare operations equips her to articulate cyber’s role as an element of national power across every tactical and strategic level.
