Sunha Bae

Sunha Bae is a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a senior researcher at the Cybersecurity Policy Department of the National Security Research Institute (NSR) since 2015. She earned her master’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2009, with a specialization in AI-related research. Before she joined NSR, she had worked for LIGNex1 (Korea’s defense industry) and Doosan Heavy Industry as a software engineer on a control system. Her main research areas include national cybersecurity strategy, cybersecurity policy exercise, active cyber defense, and cyberattack severity assessment methodology. She was involved in drafting South Korea's national cybersecurity strategy revision in 2024, and she has authored or coauthored various publications, including articles, reports, and academic papers. Her recent academic paper is about the assessment of cyberattack severity and proposes a national response matrix.