Eugenio Benincasa

Eugenio Benincasa is a Senior Cyberdefense Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, where he conducts research on China's cyber ecosystem. Before joining CSS, he worked as a Threat Analyst at the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Rome, a Research Fellow at the Pacific Forum in Honolulu, and a Crime Analyst at the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

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Talk: Not One, Not Many: How China Scales Cyber Operations (with Mei Danowski) [TLP:GREEN]

This presentation moves beyond APT-centric frameworks to examine how China scales its cyber operations through decentralized provincial security bureaus and a mature commercial cybersecurity sector. These two interlocking layers form a system that is neither a monolith nor a loose coalition, with direct implications for attribution, threat modeling, and countermeasures.

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