The house hearing today focused on the federal government of Cyber Security programs and initiatives. It includes election and system designation is Critical Infrastructure and modernizing the federal government it system. From House Homeland Security subcommittee this is one hour and 20 minutes. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all, im sure i speak for all of us here on the day as expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. It is like the ones yesterday really demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and able and hopefully it will give us a renewed sense of purpose today as we approach the task of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of Homeland Securitys Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. We are here today, at the
attention. last month, the assistant secretary for the cybersecurity and communications announced the dhs is planning to significantly expand its engagement with the private sector to combat threats like the 2017 wannacry cyberattack, which was attributed to north korea. can you provide specific examples of how you expect dhs cybersecurity collaboration with the private sector to change following last month s announcement? sure. i will keep it short because i would be happy to talk about this all day and all the great things we re doing. in general, we re looking to do a couple of things. we have as you know an automated indicator sharing program. we re looking to make sure that once we have identified threats, we can disseminate that and not only a way that is actionable, but a way that is tailored to different companies and different sectors. we re also working with the private sector to understand what it is that is really
communications announced that dhs is planning to significantly expand its engagement with the private sector to combat threats like the 2017 cyberattack which was attributed to north korea. can you provide specific examples of how you expect dhs s cybersecurity collaboration with the private sector to change following last month s announcement? sure, i will keep it short because i would be happy to talk about this all day and all the great things we re doing. if general we re looking to do a couple of things. we have as you know an automated indicator sharing program. we re looking to make sure that once we have identified threats we can disseminate that in not only a way that s actionable but tail ored to different companies and different sectors and working with the private sector to understand that s critical. traditionally we ve looked up
secretary for cyber security and communications announced that dhs is planning to significantly expand its engagement with the private sector to combat threats like the 2017 wannacry cyber attack which was attributed to north korea. can you provide specific examples of how you expect dhs s cyber security collaboration with the private sector to change following last month s announcement? sir. i will keep it short because i d be happy to talk about this all day and all the great things we re doing. in general, we re looking to do a couple things. we have, as you know, an automated indicator sharing program. we re looking to make sure that once we ve identified threats, we can disseminate that in not only a way that is actionable but a way that is tailored to different companies and different sectors. we re also working with the private sector to understand what it is that s really critical. traditionally, as you know, we ve looked at 16 critical