All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the september 12 meeting of San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman im chair. Vice chair is melgar. I want to thank sfgovtv. That is who im thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Commissioner engardio. Present. Why chair mandelman. Why present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner with theon. Present we have quorum thank you, mr. Clerk and commissioner safai is excused and im going to excuse him. And i think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do, thank you. Members of public interested in participate negligent Board Meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment r
Tell us about the chamber and what you do and how youre expanding your outreach. It was founded 41 years ago. And our mission is to help businesses to grow. Thats really our mission and main focus are minorities and we help them through education, advocacy goovrndment representation. We have several programs to serve them. One is Technical Assistance and we help them either with a marketing plan, with a financial plan, we help them to incorporate this business and to think through ideas. The Second Program we have is Networking Opportunities so basically we match company with opportunities and the third problem is being in the meetings in the western hemisphere and we look for opportunities to connect. How many members do you have. And no business is too small of a business to join the chamber . No and we have some individuals for people that want to open a business. It is really a chamber of commerce is a place for people to connect, to network and to look for opportunities and thats
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Incidents, even the very high profile ones, start with a spear phishing campaign, start with an enough it shouldnt have been clicked on. I think in that sense some of the very simple things that any company can do in terms of training their employees, knowing what their Program Looks Like actually going to default security measures instead of no secret he measures can make a big difference. And i think from the perspective changing the cost for any given firm, making sure that if there are targets of opportunity that you deny them the simple opportunity to attack you. Any thoughts on your part . From our perspective all of these conversations go into building resilience. Using the framework coming taking the partnership, using collaboration. What i like to refer to is killing the profit model on this opportunistic sense that are adversaries have. All of that goes into making it less worth it for the anniversary. But even more important making us resilient. Even if all that were to work