This is a house Energy Sub Committee hearing. Its about 2 15. Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to my great friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and ferc and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and a reliable grid is also crucial to our National Secu
Nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. I guess i want to say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning strawing through, past the civil war, youre talking about par dockses and conflicts improv. The period i tend to focus on more at the early part of that arc, and its the improve vacational nature of that, that fascinated my more than anything else of. The nation was find founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republicful. What that means wasnt clear and people knew they were trying to do something that wasnt there. The president wont be a king but beyond that there was a lot of open ground. So theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government , and how this nations going to stand up amongst the nation of the world that are other kind of nations. What does it mean to be a republic in a world of monarchies and how is the new nation going to get any degre
Issue. And so today it is important to us, we thank you for the invite, and inviting us out. As feeling just mentioned, we come from a background known as the National Protection programs directorate. Say that ten times fast. Bonus points if even knew what that meant. But today with a name like the u. S. Cybersecurity agency, we have that Value Proposition. We understand before even walk in the door what the value is never going to bring to the table and so the name like that, while we still pass on business cards, while we still great relationships, their story recognition out today with a name like cisa, protecting Critical Infrastructure that mission has changed over time as well. Today as we move further and further away from 9 11, and that antiterrorism post9 11 mission is gravitating towards domestic terrorism to its gravitating towards nations to actors that are looking to cause damage and disruption to our Critical Infrastructure. And this is Important Mission for cisa and some
Emerging trends that we see when comes to protecting Critical Infrastructure protection from attack. When the type of protecting from overhead attack we really talking about this particular issue. And so today it is important to us. We thank you for the invite, and inviting us out. As elaine just mentioned, we come from a background known as the National Protection programs directorate. Say that 10 times fast. Bonus points if even knew what that meant. But today with a name like the u. S. Cybersecurity agency, we have that Value Proposition. We understand before even walk in the door what the value is never going to bring to the table and so the name like that, while we still pass on business cards, while we still great relationships, their story recognition out today with a name like cisa, protecting Critical Infrastructure. That mission has changed over time as well. Today as we move further and further away from 9 11, and that antiterrorism post9 11 mission is gravitating towards do
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