Alexander Rudolph

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About Alexander Rudolph

Alexander Rudolph is a cyber defense policy analyst and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Alex’s research explores grand strategy, conflict, and competition in cyberspace. His doctoral thesis, “Towards a Strategic Doctrine of Cyberspace,” explores the doctrine, force development, and force structures of offensive cyber capabilities by major cyber powers including the United States, Russia, and China. Alex's research seeks to improve existing research methods by introducing hacker-informed perspectives to explain how and why countries operate the way they do in cyberspace. In addition to his Ph.D. studies, Alex regularly contributes to Canadian and international discussions on cyber conflict and cyber defense. Alex is an expert on Canadian military cyber defence policy and regularly writes on the Canadian Armed Forces cyber program. In 2023, Alex launched Canadian Cyber in Context, Canada's only research open publication dedicated to Canadian cyber defence policy. As a project manager and analyst, Alex has extensive experience addressing topics including Canadian Armed Forces cyber defence policy, Government of Canada cyber defence policy, international cyber conflict, DND/CAF information and data management capabilities, pan-domain and multi-domain operations including pan-domain command and control and joint all domain command and control. Alex presently works as a consultant and analyst in Ottawa. Find more about me and my work here: https://linktr.ee/alexfrudolph