David V. Gioe is a British Academy Global professor and visiting professor of intelligence and international security in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is also an associate professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy and a history fellow for its Army Cyber Institute.

Margaret W. Smith is an active-duty cyber officer in the U.S. Army, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and graduate faculty at the University of Maryland. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from The George Washington University.