And health and energy, environment and cybersecurity kept popping up and this was back in 2012 or so and we started looking at taking a deeper dive into it, myself and colleagues started to investigate and we decided to start a dual publication called inside cybersecurity that really focused on the development of cyber policy and that wasnt that long ago but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who really started getting into cyber as a major policy area and then it just exploded under the Obama Administration and was cutting across different issue areas that we decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy was going and so, you know, we covered it through the second Obama Administration into the Trump Administration and a lot of the book and i rode it earlier book called hacked which was about cyber during the obama years and really the beginnings of a lot of this cyber policy and so
Charlie mitchell is the author of a new book. Cyber in the age of trump. The unraveling of Americas National security policy. Before we get into the essence, what gives you a background in cybersecurity . I used to be editor of roll call. I worked at inside washington publishers. We do deep dive coverage into policy areas. Cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We looked at taking a deeper dive into it. We started investigating this and decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that focused on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago, but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who started getting into cyber as a major policy area. It exploded under the Obama Administration. Cutting across so many issue areas. We decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the
Washington publishers. We do a lot of deep dive coverage into policy areas, including defense and health and energy environment, and cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We started looking at taking a deeper dive into it and myself and a colleague started to investigate. We decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that with a focus on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who really started getting into cyber as a major policy area, and then it just exploded under the Obama Administration. It was cutting across a different issue areas that we decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the Trump Administration, and a lot of the book, i wrote an earlier book called hacked which was about cyber during the obama y
Cybersecurity kept popping up. Was in 2012 or so. Deepered at taking a dive into it. We started investigating this and decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that focused on the development of cyber policy. That long ago, but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. Bushnk president george w. Was the first one who started getting into cyber as a major policy area. It exploded under the Obama Administration. Cutting across so many issue areas. Something to create that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the Trump Administration. I wrote an earlier book called theed about cyber during obama years. Really, the beginnings a lot of this cyber policy. I wanted to write a followup on how a new administration would treat this. That is what led to this book. When you look back at 2012, how is the sophistication of cyber growing . Low staget was at a in 2012. There were a nu
To do here. I have always been reluctant to say this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. The world is experiencing today and what the american and as is americas face is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad news is that its entirely possible that it will happen again. I say this of course because the experts tell us that this virus that made the leap from one species to another can very easily happen again and if there are 2000 of these viruses out there you have no idea what they can do when they get into a human being. Thats what experts and scientists tell us have identified within their branch about 2000 different viruses. Having said that we need to look forward and i want to stress what im trying to do with this and what about all of us are trying to do, to look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on and a lot of hyperbowl going on and a lot of blame a