Another light crowd today. Good afternoon. First off, before we get started i would like to bring up Homeland Security adviser tom mosser to tell you about executive order on Cyber Security at the president just signed. He will take a few of your questions and respectfully i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive orders. Dont worry, i will come back and answer all the rest of your pressing questions as soon as he wraps up. I will turn it over to tom. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. A couple things positive to report. About one hour ago President Trump signed an executive order on Cyber Security. That executive order is going to keep his promise that he has made to the American People to keep americans safe. I would like to do a few things. If i could preview the executive order for you, we will get through three primary sections and then take questions. Among other things, at least an observation for me, i think the trend is going in the wrong direction in cyberspace and it is trying to reverse that on behalf of the American People. We have seen increasing attacks from allies, adversaries , primarily nationstates and other nationstate actors. Sitting by and doing nothing is no longer an option. President trumps action today is a heartening one. There are three sections in priority order. The First Priority for the president and the government is protecting our federal networks. Works often contain the american information and data. Not defending them is not an option. We have seen past efforts that have succeeded in we need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening in the future. A few things about federal networks. We have practiced one thing and preached another. It is time for us now to implement the Risk Reduction framework. From this point for department it is something we have asked the are to implement. From this point forward, department and agencies will practice what we preach. Second, we spend a lot of time and inordinate money protecting antiquated and outdated systems. We saw that with the opm hack and other things. From this point forward the president has issued a preference in federal procurement on federal i. T. For shared services. We have to move to the cloud instead of fracturing our security posture. The third point, the executive order directs all department and agency heads continue key roles but also centralizes risks to review federal i. T. As one enterprise network. If we dont do so we will not be able to adequately understand what risks exist and how to mitigate it. A number of thoughts on that. Among other things that will be a very difficult task. Modernizing is imperative for our security. But modernizing will require a lot of good governance. The president s American Technology council will run that on behalf of the president. We have great hope there will be efficiency but also security. I would also note that other countries have taken two or three years to learn what we came up with in a few months and as we cannot promote innovation without first thinking through Risk Reduction. Do you together is in message we would like to encourage private sector folks to adopt. Point two is Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Security effort. The president has directed the cabinet to begin the hard work of protecting our nations most Critical Infrastructures. Utilities, financial and Health Care Systems, telecommunications networks. He has directed them to identify additional measures to defend and secure our Critical Infrastructure and has continued to promote the message that do nothing is no longer an option. Doing nothing is no longer an option. The executive order not only requires departments and agencies to help those operators in the most important ways but to do it in a productive sense. Important ones but to do it in a proactive sense. His message is towards action. We have seen bipartisan studies over the last eight years, both parties have made powerful recommendations that have not been adopted for various reasons. This executive order adopted best and brightest of those recommendations, in my view. Im going to stop with those three and take questions. Actually, if i could first, was the russian hack in any weight in him way an impetus for this . I have talked to i. T. People who said putting things on the cloud can be problematic for security. What additional security measures will you apply to the cloud to make sure it is not as dflsas some of the i. T. Would be . Three things the third section might be the one i skipped over. It speaks to not only the needs to develop the norms and interoperable open Communication System that is the internet the u. S. Invented the internet and it is time to maintain our values on it but it speaks to deterrence policy which is long overdue. The russians are not the only people that operate in a negative way on the internet. Other nations are motivated to use cyber capacity and cyber tools to attack our people and the government and data. That is something we can no longer abide. We need to establish rules of the road we also need to deter those who dont want to abide by those rules. To answer your first question, no it was not a russian motivated issue. It was a United States of america motivated issue. The second question about the cloud. We have 190 agencies all trying to develop defenses. I dont think that is a wise approach. There will owe be risks. We still at risk . Yes. I will say he has created a cyber secure world. That is not the answer. If we do not move to secured and shared services we will behind the eight ball for a long time. Sitting around doing nothing, is it your intention at the Obama Administration, that was its approach to Cyber Security, sitting around and doing nothing . And he talked about one enterprise network. You talked about what enterprise network. Does that mean every make them all the same or protected in the same way . No. We need to do is view the federal government is enterprise as opposed to just viewing. Each agency has its own enterprise. Implementing the president s executive order. Their network covers 340,000 employees and contractors. They are responsible and the secretary of each department and agency will remain responsible for securing those networks. We need to look at the federal government as an enterprise as well so we no longer look at opm and say you can defend that with the money for the responsibility. Opm is the crown jewel of our security clearances. We want to look at that it said that is a high risk, high cost for us to bear. Maybe we should look at this as an enterprise than we would otherwise put into opium looking at the relevant importance to the entire thing. Not just their budget, but based on what they do. Each agency has a responsibility to identify the risk to the president so they can look at what they have done and importantly, what risk they know they are accepting but not mitigating. There is a lot of identified and not remediated risk. That will have to come through a centralized place. We have seen other countries adopt a centralized view. Thats the answer to your question. The previous administrations approach from your Vantage Point i think that the observation is that we have not done the basic block and tackle. Thinking of the internet is something that the American People benefit from. What we have done is focus on the federal i. T. Of it. Looking at this from the perspective of a deterrence strategy, yes, i think the last administration had an obligation to do that and it did not. Does the administration have a view on what might constitute an act of war, what cyber activity might constitute an active war . I think the most important answer to your question is that were not going to draw a redline with a cyber war at this point. It is not within the scope of the executive order. It would also violate the president s primary mission to not telegraphed our punches. If something does something to us that we cannot tolerate, we will act. You said the goal is to secure the internet as something that americans use and enjoy. Well, the technical standards for most things on the internet are put together by Many International standards organizations and engineers, things like that that often are not in the United States. Has there been any talk of outreach to the sources to build in security for the next generation of protocols . Absolutely. Not just protect the people of america. We have an american first perspective, but the idea of having likeminded people like our allies developing with us the open operative internet is something key to figuring out how we will do fine what is and is not acceptable. We cant cut off the internet at our borders and expected to operate in a viable way. If their ability is coming out of germany, we will take them. We do have much of an indication there will be a significant Silicon Valley or tech leaders coming here. We know we had reports of phone calls with someone like Mark Zuckerberg. Who can we expect to see coming to the white house next month . Someone like Mark Zuckerberg working closing with the administration . Let me tell you the president did or did not talk to. I will probably get that wrong anyway. There is a lot to talk about with private industry. Among other things that stuff needs to come into the white house in the appropriate way. We talk on a regular basis to leaders. Some technical leaders, some is some that are business leaders. My point was that they are going to have a leadership rule in for modernizing our federal i. T. That has a lot of reasons. There is efficiency and cost savings cost savings. I would direct you to the American Technology council as you think about efficiency. As an example we have heard numbers that suggests that the federal government spends upwards of 40,000 per employee i. T. Costs. Those costs are so out of line with private industry that secretary ross and others probably have a very easy time making money off it company that is so poorly investing their dollars. I think youll see that innovation come from that group of leaders. In terms of what youll see over the next month i would say i dont know how to enter that specifically without like to take the opportunity before sarah pulls me to bank two to to thank two or three people. One of them high on the list is mayor giuliani. I would like to thank him for his advice. I would like to thank representative maccoll. A few member others of congress. Representative nunez, senator collins, senator mccain, senator burr. There are a number of people who provided thought leadership and have taken action in pass legislation. It has improved our Cyber Security over the last eight years. I didnt want to be critical of the last eight years but i want to look forward. For Obama Administration official who dealt with other countries and other entities and other countries, he said they were tens of thousands of attempts to hack into Government Systems daily. Can you quantify or confirm or deny that . The answer is no. We see that happen that we start getting into a numbers game. What i think would be a better argument right now, not to cut off your reasonable question, but the better answer is for us to figure out a better defense. If we do it based on an individual attack basis were probably looking at it in the wrong way. But was this person correct when they said entities from around the world daily without numbers the trendline is going in the wrong direction. We see additional attacks come additional numbers and volume in occasionally additional successes that trouble us. That is the best way i can quantify that. Can you just say why the Cyber Security order was delayed . To come out one day earlier in the administration and there had been talk about concern from Silicon Valley and tech leaders with the direction it was going in. Do you have some sense of the support that this order has or not from the tech world . I want to answer and reject part of your question. I think that will be clarifying. First, i will reject one part of your question. We did see concerns, but i dont think they remain. Concerns arose when they read the voluntary call that we reduce greatly the number of botnet attacks in the United States. That is going to require voluntary Cooperation Among owners and operators from service providers, manufacturers of goods. Those will happen to have to happen voluntarily. Without the finding who is in and who is out his involuntary operation but we know they have the technical capacity to come together on behalf of the American People and reduce botnets dramatically. The president wants them to do that. The secretary of commerce will facilitate that. We saw a reflection of a concern that there would be a compulsion. Broader question of the lake, i dont take that either. I think we have been criticized for doing things too quickly and now we are being criticized for doing things to slowly. Maybe we are in the sweet spot. I think the president has hit the timing perfectly. One of the things he directed us to do was to get the money right. He has picked a cabinet full of people that no business functions have to follow people that know business functions have to follow properly. If you dont have the infrastructure, you have to change her vision or amount of money. Off the top of my head i thought you might ask that. The first i answered and that is we do not want to innovate policy on the innovation side. He saw the president signed off last friday on the Technology Council and he signed today the Cyber Security order. That was done intentionally. Will the president s fy 2018 billionllocated 4. 5 across departments involved in cyberspace. The right sizeve of money to keep america safe and that might answer all three components of your question. Thank you so much for your time. About political motivation that the Cyber Security concerns . Im sure hell be happy to come back to questions later. Thank you so much. He was wrong on one thing. I would gladly have let him stay up your and talks Cyber Security all day. A few announcements and i will get to all of your many pressing questions. The president also signed another executive order establishing a bipartisan president ial Advisory Commission on election integrity. This will be chaired by Vice President mike pants. That is what the commission is tasked with doing. The Bipartisan Commission will be made up of around a dozen members, including current and former secretaries of state with kansas secretary of state kurt co. Bark serving as vice chair. It will also deal with Election Fraud detection and voter integrity efforts. Five additional members that have been announced are connie gardner, matthew dunlap, the secretary of state of maine, kim blackwell, former secretary of state of ohio, and christy mccormick, a commissioner on the election assistance commission. The commissioner will review policies that enhance or undermined the American Peoples confidence in the integrity of federal elections and provide a report that identifies older abilities in improper identifies vulnerabilities in improper voting. Will be and hearings open to the public for comment an input and we will share updates as we have them. Secretary purdue is in the Agriculture Department is planning to reorganize to divide Better Service to the American People. With the barges of the ohio river behind him, many of which contain products beginning a journey that will take them will recognize the importance of growing International Trade due to the Agricultural Sector of the economy. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will hold a press conference at 2 15 today to announce the results of a successful recent gang surge operation. The president has made enforcement of our nations immigration laws a top priority, and todays announcement will underscore not only that commitment but his focus on targeting transnational gangs and prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety. Also today, secretary mattis met with the turkish Prime Minister in london to discuss a range of bilateral security issues, and as secretary reiterated the u. S. s commitment to provide commitment to protecting our nato allies and providing security in iraq and syria. One other thing i want to point out. Last night obamacare suffered another serious blow. Aetna announced the decision to pull out the nebraska and delaware marketplaces which it ends their participation in exchanges completely. Theyve sustained hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several years and is projected to lose more than 200 million in 2017. The company attributes those losses to structural issues within the exchanges, quote, that have led to coop failures and carrier exits and subsequent risk pool deterioration, end quote. This latest news adds to the mountain of evidence tha