Christopher Whyte, PhD. is Associate Professor of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of nearly four dozen peer-reviewed research articles, numerous reports, and five books focused on information warfare, the decision-making dimensions of cyber conflict, and the dynamics of organizational innovation and technology adoption. His most recent book is Subversion 2.0 (Oxford University Press 2024) which catalogues how non-violent subversive fringe actors in world politics have increasingly turned to the Internet for both activism and antagonism. He is also editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics focused on issues of cyber conflict in the Indo-Pacific.