Viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we need to be able to get ahead of the curve. Our conference is titled securing our future, and it is meant to be a strategic set of issues that looks across our various portfolio issues. Let me ask everyone to please put their phones in quiet mode and, when you do ha
When a cyber attack rises to level of warfare. Would require policymakers to consider the ways in which can the damage from a cyber attack to a conventional attack. It would require the definition in its law of war manual read more at the hill. Com. Back up on the hill today capitol hill Coverage Today of the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and how her implementing new rules for physicians payments under medicar the the acting director would testify and our live coverage starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan 3. More now from this conference on National Security and counter the the department of Homeland Security talks about deputy secretary talks about efforts to increase Cyber Security threat information sharing between government and private sectors. And public and private sectors talk about what they are doing to encourage cooperation in combatting cyber threats. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for tak
Share i sharing information to deal with Cyber Security threats. Its two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules. Let me also welcome our cspan viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we n
Leaving the United States, traveling to conflict zones, syria most notably, and the concern that they became or already were radicalized with the intent of returning to the United States to do us harm. That, of course, remains a concern of ours, but increasingly we are concerned about the homegrown radicalized violent extremist. And we had an effort that was under the rubric of countering violent extremism, but we rebranded that effort very importantly and created the office for Community Partnerships because ultimately ultimately the owners of that effort must be the local communities themselves to be able to identify individuals who are on the path to radicalization and to intervene in that path. We, in the federal government, can facilitate and equip them to address this phenomenon. The director james comey has spoken on a number of occasions publicly about the fact that there are approximately 1,000 individuals under investigation in the United States now. There are individuals in
Will moderate the first session this morning with the deputy secretary of dhs. Mike balboni is a longtime friend, coconspirator on a whole host of issues. He serves on our board and more importantly has served in numerous roles related to Homeland Security, including the Homeland Security adviser to two different governors in the state of new york, a former senator, state senator in new york who really picked up and defense of a lot of the Homeland Security issues from the status of the. Also resides from my hometown, long island. He represented long island, as you can see im wearing the islanders color today. But without further ado it introduced mike balboni who is ceo of redland strategies. You see him a lot on our tv screens throughout the country. Mike, the floor is yours. Thank you. [applause] good morning ladies and gentlemen. I dont know if you share my sense of enthusiasm that its great when you come from the hinterlands of the state did you come to washington, d. C. And to ge