Guest well, def con is largest tech conference in the world about 30000 people attended in las vegas pre covid and black hat is one of the largest security conferences also held in las vegas and one the university and one is more like the party. One is focused on professional Career Advancement and the other is focused on the sole of hackers and inspiring them. Host when did you found these . Guest def con is pretty old, before the. Com bubble, before 1993 in about three, four years later black cat started in 1997, i believe. The secret was we did no advertising or marketing and they just grew organically. Host what is your background that you were able to do this . Guest well, originally i thought i would be an fbi agent but instead i turned into a hacker and it was a hobby like everything, a hobby that turned into a career and they started throwing a party for some of my friends that were going away on one of the Computer Networks are belong to and instead i ended up inviting everyon
On cspan leading to a senate trial. Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. On demand at cspan. Org impeachment, and listen on the free cspan radio app. Joining us at the table, ofeel jaffer is the founder the National Security institute at George Mason Universitys law school, also Vice President of a firm called iron net cybersecurity. Good morning. Jaffer. We will get started talking about cybersecurity. Guest it was started by keith alexander. We do Cyber Defense, so we look behavioral threats on not just one company, but an ecosystem. Host lets talk about Cyber Defense. We saw the commentary piece you wrote, iranian Cyber Attacks are coming. Considering where we are in this situation, what are you expecting in the area of Cyber Attacks . A the it looks like escalatory de situation. We responded with the death of emstom soleimani qass soleimani and then they had a debate internally. How big do we go. My assessment was they would come back with a response, but it would not be so big as t
This process. If you would like to participate ifphone, call 202 7488000 you a democrat. Republican, call 202 7488001. If you are an independent, call 202 7488002. You can also post a comment cspanwj, that is our twitter handle. They ride to that the speaker said that she would move forward next week on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, setting the stage for the trial of President Trump. Nancy pelosi withheld the articles for several weeks as democrats sought assurances that the senate trial would include testimony from witnesses blocked by the white house. Republican from kentucky made no such guarantees and said that he mcconnell made no such guarantees. He said he would dismiss the articles against President Trump if they were not sent over soon. A dismissal as a coverup and it deprives the American People truth,ruth, get the nancy pelosi wrote. There is a lot of reaction coming into this, including this story in the Washington Examiner blunder or brilliance is the
Back from lunch. Those who are in the exhibit hall if you could begin to move back, we would greatly appreciate it. I want to get a special thanks to Northrop Grumman. Jennifer walsh smith and Chris Valentino i know are here. If you could raise your hands. Jennifer is here and is valentino from Northrop Grumman, i want to give a special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. [applause] i also want to thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support, which is been greatly, really a key reason for us to be able to host this forum are free for the government, military, and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also give to your attention, please, on your seats are flyers that describe the next years event, september 8 and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. That would be september 8 and 9th, 2020. We also have for Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership Council meetings. We are in the th
Very much and welcome back from lunch. If those who are in the exhibit hall, if you could begin to move back, we would greatly appreciate it. I want to give a special thanks to Northrup Grumman. So Jennifer Walsmith and chris valentino, i know, are here. If you could raise your hands . Jennifer is here and chris from Northrup Grumman, i want to give a special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. I also want to applause applause thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be september 8th and 9th, 2020. We also have Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership C