Among which in this day and age, absolutely and positively has to include our Cyber Networks. Our partnerships and collaboration are key. As governor hickam who governor hickenlooper lexus it, cooperation is the new collaboration. Experts from industry and academia are demonstrating that are demonstrating systems that are affordable and accessible. These men and women are outstanding. They have helped us in our exercises and drills and our training. I know that the council of governors is anxious to explore a better defined role for our National Guard in this new domain. We also signed a 3 million cybersecurity tax credit into law to accelerate job growth in this field. For all of the focus that we have seen on the National Level, we still have a lot of work to do in order to elevate the collaboration between a federal government and states in this realm. That is where the nga Resource Center ons eight cybersecuritys is working. We are working to fill the void. One of these tools is the governors call to action for cybersecurity that will lay out a framework that all of us can pursue. Governance authority, Risk Assessment, continuous vulnerability and threat assessments and the like. We also introduced an electronic dashboard that governors can use to understand their states level of readiness at a glance. Moving forward, we are exploring for areas. We are looking for stronger collaboration between our states and our federal partners. Second, looking for ways that the states can use their state owned Fusion Centers to support stronger and more robust cybersecurity defenses on an interstate as well as an interstate basis. We are working to develop effective state policies to address the security of our data and our own infrastructure. Fourth, we will be making recommendations on how governors can best develop a more highly Skilled Workforce to fill the ranks of the needs that are out there in this new domain. So the work of the Resource Center is essential. We want to thank the able staff that has been working on this. Thank you for your leadership on this. And also the grantmakers who have made this work au sable. The american gas association, cities deloitte, good technology, hewlettpackard, ibm, northrop grumman, semantic, and vmware. And i thank you again for the opportunity to bring everyone up to date. Thank you. Rick presentation. I understand that delaware and maryland are working together to sponsor and participate in the cyberspace is academy. We were one of the first states in delaware to host the cyber challenge can to attract young people to pursue a career in this area. We just graduated 47 students from our Fourth Annual camp. Governor omalley mentioned the air guard and i think i see the tag of the Wisconsin Guard over there. Ice to see you again. Thank you for being here. Lets all recognize the tag, please. [applause] thank you. Theyve been with us several times this weekend. We appreciate that. I was when to turn the conversation in that direction for a moment because heather from the nga health and Homeland SecurityInformation Committee will give us an update. Governor omalley mentioned the great work done in maryland and the incredible assets there to leverage something ive learned in delaware as well. Heather, its all yours. Thank you. As governor omalley mentioned, in addition to the work of the Cybersecurity Research center, nga is working through the board of governors to address National Cyber security vulnerabilities. A key focus of this work is looking at how the National Guard can better be leveraged to meet the needs of both states and the federal government given its unique roles and response abilities. Crowley, we know that all levels of government face a shortage of trained and qualified personnel to both protect Cyber Networks in advance and respond to intrusions and attacks when they occur. The citizen soldiers of the National Guard announced thered will roll so ring announced their role serving both governors and the president. This builtin talent can provide states and the federal government with access to leadingedge civilian declared skill sets that are not otherwise available within the government and some National Guard units have taken the initiative to leverage the capability. For instance, in several states, the National Guard is actively correlating with Homeland Security advisers and Emergency Managers to know cyber Incident Response plans did they are also response plans. Theyre also participating in exercises to deal with cyber Incident Responses. Working through the council of governors, we are supporting efforts to expand and enhance an expert at the use of these kinds of capabilities. This will give governors and other to an the toolbox to address Cyber Security threats to at the same time, we are correlating with congressional offices to increase awareness of the guard as a readily available and costeffective solution to the nations cybersecurity challenges. Bipartisan legislation was introduced this past spring in both the house and the senate to provide the guard a stronger role in cybersecurity and to provide each governor with a cyber Incident Response team. Nga help support this legislation and help gain ingersoll support for their efforts. We have friendly seen a great deal of support in congress for these kinds of initiatives. But the house and the senate included in fact, required considering the National Guard capabilities and what it can bring to the table. The council of governors, is meeting again this afternoon to continue discussion on these issues. One of the primary goals of that meeting will be to encourage the federal government to actively partner with states to build and execute a conference a plan to address the nations cyber capabilities. Nga will continue to support these and promote other efforts and opportunities for states to work in National Level initiatives. Thank you for the opportunity. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you for the great job youre doing. What i would like to do is open it up to all of the governors, any questions either for our speaker or governor omalley or for help or for heather or for anybody else. I wanted to followup on what heather was saying in terms of the guard. The Cybersecurity Center and the National Guard just had an exercise. We hired the top hackers or at least ones who said they were. That is what we are doing right now is to set up our own Cyber Defense, if you will. We are doing wargames. We are trying to see what our vulnerabilities are. We call it a cyber range. It is a combination of the guard capacity and the University Point on our Cyber Defense spear. Isnt it it is an anti computer access project. As i said, we do not have all of the results, but this can be done allegedly quickly using existing resources, is what im trying to drive at. The cyber capacity at the university, and the everyday training activity within thE State Department of defense, and the staffing there, is ongoing anyway. What we have done is formalized it. That is the principal forming our attempts to come to grips with some of the elements that have been cited so clearly here today. Thank you, governor. Anyone else . So, maybe i will ask heather again, because i think there is really interesting work going on across the country. I do appreciate governor omalley sharing some of the details. One is the what is the most important thing that the governors can do now to take it to the next level with a resource that are available to them . Excellent question. I think theres a real opportunity here. The key thing is to encourage the department of defense to move quickly and allow the National Guard units that want to move forward in this area. U. S. Cyber command is working on having the army and the air force, and the National Guard when all of their resources work on this issue concurrently. I think with this session today, we have the Good Opportunity to drive that discussion forward. I think governor support for encouraging that to move as quickly as possible is going to be credible. Jack, may i just, just one further point . I should have added, i made it sound a bit too optimistic. We just put this together. I would be interested in maybe to have an appropriate point will we are doing this with existing equipment. Some has been donated, part of the reason that we have been able to put this together that nobody wants the hardware that were using right now. This is going to need we are going to lose on some of this, by the way. I do not bid we will be totally successful, because our defenses, if you will, are inferior. In terms of the servers, in terms of the routers, etc. I am not sophisticated enough to know all of it, but my point is that the equipment that were using we have topnotch people, but the equipment we are using is inferior. What is being told to me that we are going to have to make an investment if we want to go to more than just being able to retroactively defend ourselves. None of us deny those collaborations need to come on board. I guess the point i would like to underscore is that you have great expertise. You know you need a governing structure for this, you know there are Risk Assessment that need to be conducted. You know that we need to do more training, and awareness of our employees. You have the ability to do all of those things combined also the ability to draw on your own financial services, to form your own Cyber Security council. You can say look, why are we waiting for washington in the National Guard, and everyone in the federal arsenal to get a bus . To catch up with us . What can i do now to make sure that we do not have a breach of personal information . That is really what i was try to get at. Thank you. I have asked in delaware for that head of the department of Technology Education to see what steps were are taking. It looks like a pretty good list and i am not sure what resources are available here for us at nga. I want to get the best in class set of standards. Can you run through the dashboard, and some of the other questions . There is a dashboard where there is a checklist, we are not talking about dreams and volumes of paper, were talking about a simple sort of step and action you can take and go through. That is available through this center. Also, the names and emails of our other partners who are part of this board. Members who would be delighted to have a governor call them, or reach out to them, and save what advice can you give to me on this . As with the other Homeland Security aspects, they need drilling, training, and metrics laid out for us. Who at nga is responsible for that . So i would ask thomas if he could make sure that we all get that checklist that governor omalley is talking about . To make sure, that as we are questioning the people in our states that we are asking all of the right and tough, and appropriate questions. Ok, thank you. With that, i want to thank all of you for this session. What i want to do now is to call the committee chairs, but i thank you very much for your recent additions. I want to hear it their brief reports of the work of the committee. I went to work on the National Resources committee, and the governor of south dakota. Yesterday, the Economic Development and congress committee, and the Natural Resources committee had a joint meeting. It was very productive, it was a session on the state of our nations infrastructure. We had a couple of very good guest speakers. We first heard from the u. S. Representative who is the chairman of the House Committee for transportation and infrastructure. We got the Vantage Point of the house of representatives. Immediately following his answers to questions, we received another distinguished guest, the newly up or did newly appointed secretary anthony foxx, who held forth on his blue points on our infrastructure viewpoint on our infrastructure. I want to thank everyone for being that meeting, and for participating in the discussion. Thank you. For the Education Workforce committee, governor malloy. Thank you. The Education Workforce ready, we discussed increasing workforce innovation to close the skills gap, create jobs, and grow family incomes. We had several distinguished speakers. Governors discussed what we were doing our states in job creation at a, growth. We also discussed the reauthorization of the workforce investment act. And importance of restoring, we have 15 setaside for our Training Programs that need to be put to local employers. We date we would be remiss if we do not take a moment to recognize the directive education and Workforce Committee who is working with us for more than a decade, and who has moved on to working with our universities to make sure they are the best in the world. When she was hired, she was charged with putting governors back on the war front of National Policy debates concerning education when there is no doubt that governors are on the forefront of those discussions. She has a desk in a fierce and effective advocate. I would like to ask you all to join me in applauding her service. [applause] that concludes my report. Thank you. I want to add my word of thanks to joan as well. She has done a wonderful job. Governor omalley, on behalf of the halls and Homeland Security committee. Mr. Chairman, thank you. On friday, we met to discuss two important topics in both of them have to do with making sure that we are doing everything in our power to connect our veterans to Employment Opportunities. And other benefits when they come home for the battlefield, and we were joined for the presentation of alan hickey, the assistant secretary for the department of veterans affairs. They are making some important improvements there. They have been using modern technology to create, and clots arms robin platforms that we can you stay wide to reach out to our active guard service, or army, our air force, or wherever they come from. We also had presentations from secretary of labor, as well as the office of veteran services. The second half of that. We heard from the second half of that time we heard from the Emergency Management agency a dialogue on building and strengthening assets that we need to respond in the aftermath of natural disasters, whatever hits us. Those were incredibly valuable, and we discussed coming outof thebox marathon, and we discussed the Boston Marathon bombing the vacations, insert capacity and the light like. I want to thank all of the governors who joined us. I would like to thank governor i get mentioned Governor Walker earlier. Once again, scott, thank you for doing such a great job. You want to make any closing comments before you take off . Thank you. First of all, think you for coming to the milwaukee boy scouts, we appreciate it. I appreciate all of the governors, their families, their extended families, and all the others who came to our state. Indulge me for a moment, i would to thank our commissioner of euro the bureau who has done that. You saw a lot of the folks going around in the turquoise shirts who were all volunteers from the community who helped of the last few days. I want to thank them. I also solved by the command center last night. We had a tremendous effort by the state control, the natural the wisconsin natural guard National Guard. The milwaukees county sheriffs office, our wonderful partners at the federal level, the fbi, the coast guard to buy with the thank all of them. Governor markel, on a personal note, i want to tell you that not only your leadership of the past year, but also when i go through this session and every other one that you have held, your focus in employing people with disabilities has been inspiring. I have taken your document, and we are going to include it, we are going to carve out a segment for employing veterans. We will also talk about the benefits of employing people with disabilities, and we will build off of that going into next year. We appreciate your leadership in many ways, which has impacted each of us respectfully. To my friends, governor fallin, who i have been a friend with even before we were elected. Welcome to your new role in leadership. Congratulations on being the interim vice chair. We joke about drinking beer, but im perfectly comfortable taking drinking coors lite. On a more serious note, i want to wish all of you safe travels. Most of you will fly out of the nearby airport, and i will be going just a few minutes south of that. On august 5 of last year, a year from tomorrow, we lost six lives. Today we will be memorializing those six lives