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Testing. Good morning. My name is josh rogan program im a columnist at the Washington Post. Thank you for joining us this morning for a panel entitled Homeland Security challenges. Very pleased to have a very distinguished panel with us today. Of course, we have the former secretary of Homeland Security, the honorable jeh johnson. We have mr. Frank salufo, the director of the center for cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington university, my alma mater. We have the congresswoman Kath...

To say the least. We have terrific people here today for all these questions. Alexander klimburg as i mentioned has really written a book on this called the darkening web turkeys a senior fellow with the Council Cyber statecraft initiative. Is a Program Director at the hague center for strategic studies, an associate fellow at the Austrian Institute european policy. The welcome, alex. Delighted to have you. Ceo of north america, former deputy secretary of the department of Homeland Security and ...

It is a great tester to maturity of the company you want to do business with is do they submit themselves to open hacking . Do they compensate hackers. If a volume and if you find a vulnerability of their product they will pay the hacker which is amazing. It gets hackers oriented the organization that puts that out there feels comfortable. They want to learn more. They have a culture that wants to identify and protect themselves. Any thoughts on the black holes . What is interesting to know my y...

P. M. Eastern on cspan. Now, a discussion on cybersecurity and how the department of Homeland Security is changing to meet new threats. Panelists include leading experts from both government and corporations, followed by remarks from former National Intelligence director dennis blair. This is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] all right. Were going to kick start this. I know some are on break, but just given our time crunch, i want to make sure were able to cover enough time for panel...

Credit for having a centralized oversight. Clear transparency and accountability about how we are going about it. We are getting positive feedback from industry and improvements we are making in the process. Very open dialogue there with reverse engineering days and other things. Hopefully there is plenty of issues they want to address. We have documentation as they are Going Forward now. New people working two components. Making it easier for everyone to work together. We have to make sure it s...

Are adversaries, nationstates or other entities, to steal our secret, but also to hide theirs, and to deceive us into thinking or doing the things that are going to be in their interest. There are influence operations as well as collection activities that fall within the realm of counterintelligence worries in dealing with foreign intelligence threats. Threats at home and abroad. So, counterintelligence therefore becomes the full range of things that are done information acquired and activities ...

It comes to Government Agencies . So, there are a couple of different aspects to your question. Certainly, from our perspective, weve gotten a lot of feedback of sources, bunch including the sector coordinating councils, our different agencies that have connections with different industries, treasury with the Financial Services industry, the Energy Department with the energy providers. And our own connections with the tech sector. In general, the feedback has been very positive for the framework...

Really to two root problems. The first is that the Cyber Systems that we rely on are inherently vulnerable. So the commercial operating systems, the commercial software packages, the commercial hardware platforms, these are all designed rimarily to address profit motives. They are easily obtained by the attacker. They can exploit and find the vulnerabilities in those systems and that is largely what they take advantage of. Thats probably not going to change any time soon. And then the second pro...

Corruption and the babylonians and the greeks had arguments about the use of it in some forms. I think this will continue to be a policy tension that we have to navigate. You will have love to talk about getting some better hackers. I think we have questions from the audience. If anyone has anything. [inaudible] david from politico. Can you elaborate a little bit more on white house observation of what was going on at the jp morgan and the other Financial Institutions and in what context . Was a...

You probably all know that the government was quite hesitant to send its Ground Troops to occupy gaza because the defense capacity was talking about the fact that we did get into gaza with quite quite an extensive military composition was because of the tunnel. So we had the decision of the government. Remember, something hamas is looking for, this is one of their goals to change or to impact or to influence the decisionmaking of the government. We also had to impact the israelis as a whole. At ...