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Columnist. General dunford, thank you so much for taking your time to do this. Orm sure in the last month so in your long service, you have got a lot of demands on your time, so your willingness to come out and talk about the world here, we really appreciate. Gen. Dunford i questioned my judgment when i looked at the schedule this morning. [laughter] david at the end of the hour, you may question it again. But for different reasons. [laughter] dunford undoubtedly. Today, as youplan can see from the many cameras best year our plan is that the general and i will have a conversation for about 30 minutes and then open it up for questions from our audience. , general dunford, we could go back on so many places, given your service and so many different roles, but you came into this job in 2015, appointed by president obama. How would you compare the Global Security environment you have faced since day one of the job with the one that you are facing as you prepare to turn this job over . Gen.
Columnist. General dunford, thank you so much for taking your time to do this. Orm sure in the last month so in your long service, you have got a lot of demands on your time, so your willingness to come out and talk about the world here, we really appreciate. Gen. Dunford i questioned my judgment when i looked at the schedule this morning. [laughter] david at the end of the hour, you may question it again. But for different reasons. [laughter] dunford undoubtedly. Today, as youplan can see from the many cameras best year our plan is that the general and i will have a conversation for about 30 minutes and then open it up for questions from our audience. , general dunford, we could go back on so many places, given your service and so many different roles, but you came into this job in 2015, appointed by president obama. How would you compare the Global Security environment you have faced since day one of the job with the one that you are facing as you prepare to turn this job over . Gen.
Test test test test test test test. This is a test. This is a captioning test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test they do break down a little bit in cyber in terms of going out and labeling objects for full motion video, there are no objects on the ground. We have it and we have people, buildings, we work our way down from there. Cyber a little bit difficult problem to deal with. What is the baseline . If we take the baseline behavior, i have to know what baseline is, its a appreciative maintenance or humanitarian assistance astro relief case. So if i go back to starting with a data problem on cyber, its the most basic problems that everybody begins with, data access, data quality, data content, data classification and data standards. What we have to do is reset a little bit. Our challenge without getting into the Technical Details is we have 24 Cyber Security providers all of whom are collec
Are across the street. We believe this program to go to our live coverage of the intelligence and National Security conference taking place at the National Harbor today. Coming up a discussion on defending cyberspace. Live coverage here on cspan2. It is crucial to collaborate to address Cyber Threats for our national and economic security. To moderate this discussion it is my privilege to introduce david sanger. David is a National Security correspondent and a Senior Writer at the New York Times. In his 36 year reporting career for the times, very impressive, david, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His latest book, and its a good one, the perfect weapon, war, sabotage, and fear in cyber age examine the emergence of cyber conflict, and how it is changing the nature of global power. Please join me in welcoming david sanger. [applause] well, thank you, william. Thank you all for coming here. We are acutely aware wh