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This Atlantic Council event is about two hours. Director of the cybersecurity and if a Structure Agency at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security and principal associate Deputy Attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. Going to go through some questions and we will have time to take questions for b i wonder if you could get us started. Talk through some key framing assumptions for the strategy. What were two or three places you wanted the team to focus on shifting the debate. To talk to you. Strategy. There are some fundamental shifts as you recognized in the strategy. First we have to start with what we wanted cyberspace to look like. What are we trying to achieve, what is our northstar . That is to have a defensible resilient Digital Ecosystem that is aligned with our values. That is what we are trying to achieve. At bottom our constituents are American People. How do we do this for in American People and at its core, it is reliant, significantly rely on collaboration a
Im one of those people who admit to going to davos. Cisco has the chalet on the promenade where you can go in and i i get a with it because you can watch in realtime what they are tracking nefarious activities on the global web. Im fascinated by the sources and how the sun moves and how cybernefarious activities move and i always thought connectivity created this problem. Do you trust the connectivity or should you hear it you look at that equilibrium point of how you deal with risk and resilience and what you should be worried about and whether or not we are getting it wrong. To make it such a great question and i think its a mistake to trust. I dont think we should fear but i think we should manage. I think we need to have our eyes open about the nature of the risk and its an increasingly interconnected world. 43 billion estimated 43 billion connected devices by the end of this year. Thats a massive attack and the mistake that you make is entrusting up to the point where we make ours
Armed services subcommittee. Mr. Gallagher the subcommittee will come to order. I ask everyone to be mindful of our committee rules. We start on time. U. S. Language the average american can understand. And we stick to the fiveminute rule, including on witness responses. With that, good morning, everyone, thank you for being here today for our hearing on the department of defenses cyberspace activities. We ask a lot from the department in this space. From securely operating networks and inherently insecure Weapons Systems to assisting small and large systems. More important than anything else is how prepared and capable we are to hold our adversaries at risk. Ive expressed my concerns about the departments pace for modernizing and growing the ships, aircraft and other weapons for a fight with china. If we accept that we need more time, it is my genuine belief that our ability to robustly use information and Cyber Operations should provide us with the opportunity to buy time to maneuver