Transcripts For CSPAN2 NSA 20240705 : vimarsana.com

[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Before we start the program, i have some announcements, for summerlike design earlier this week, open registration for our 22024, Charlie Allen Achievement Award know and its working to come these words spotlight the outstanding work being done by the early to midcareer professionals across our Community Event will take place on the thursday february the 15th oversee army navy and arlington and our keynote for that will be mga deputy directive tonya several celebratory evening and my opinion is one of the best events of the year and its really uplifting just to hear the stories of the six awardees what they been doing such an early point in their career predict i will detail on this are available the website and also, you may have a set on this or got in the way or perhaps you spilled some jelly on it or something, but in yourt. Seat yu willin find copies of our 2023, annual report and it really gives you a great idea and a sense of our membership, even as we do through the year please take it with you and share with some of your colleagues. It showcases the work that we do really bring together the public and private academic sector. And now it is my pleasure to introduce longstanding friend tom ritchie, is Vice President of the deep abilities hill also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee and tumble introduce our moderator and guest speaker tom alternatively you. Good morning everyone im going to do this quick so you can really listen to an illicit we came here to listen to a dog thanks a lot to be half of rick on, i would really well ensure you would all join me in thanking all of the staff for posting this event this morning is really important time in our nations history with the issues atd. Hand and they support say n your Cyber Community number very the data sources provide foundations of the features applications at onyx open source data. And to be proactive in predictor of adversary attacks pretty general as you move forward, pulling resiliency in all aspects of technology, a. I. Policy infrastructure in the workforce, i think that i can speak for all who is here saying that we are all here partnering with you and your goals and omissions to protect the nation. It really is a true honor and privilege to introduce our speaker today. Our moderator accomplishments arguments she served as director and Deputy Director of bia Principal Deputy under secretary of Defense Intelligence Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence to that resume resumed this yer marks or date here, jerry benson so congratulations. [applause] [applause] thank you. I think you for your leadership and having to work with this now for years, i really have such respect for her and her leadership and insight is really moving the nation forward guest of honor today general assume the duties of commander of u. S. Cyber command and director the National Security agency and chief of Central Security service in may of 2018 pretty he previously commanded army Cyber Commandou from 2016 2018 pretty and distinguished career has featured command staff positions acrossfe all of the whole as wel as several assignments of the vote, including serving as director of intelligence, for the interNational Security systems force in afghanistan pretty general suite as you insert everybody please join me in welcoming him here today. [applause] [applause] thank you tom very much for theor kind introduction. The meat out of my good morning and welcome is good tos see everyone here this morning and especially good to see you tom always any work such of friend and w we are always delighted to welcome you back and so is good to see you pretty and not surprisingly, cspan is recording here this morning and they be playing our conversation later today. So lets make this an interesting one and will start with a warmup question pretty talets talk about your priorits for the coming year and it is a Cyber Command talk about them both. Only began first but with my and for small thank you to the sponsors for being able too hold this and obviously to himself which i haveching and also been a part of for a number of years and really pleased with they been able to do too for our communities anything about nearterm priorities not begins morningte with what is our focus our focus begins on a number of different regions of israel hamas new concerns about Russia Ukraine in South China Sea in his understanding are unusual cyber actors also thinking about our facing challenge of china and what we need to be today, tomorrow and in the future pretty regarding our challenges forre what is obviously an exciting time. Okay, that was the warmup. A tool that is very necessary for you to keep up with all of those challenges whether in china malicious actors, no acrosstheboard and is certainly section in the reauthorization and there has been a flurry of off and is impassable weeks revenue bill thats been introduced by senator warner underwater and rubio and your card authorization expires i believe at the end of this month talk about 702 reauthorization and kind of what is next. [speaking in native tongue] seventytwo is the most important authority that we utilize day in and day out induces the essential for the defense protection of our people. And i was we think about 70 lets take a step back and is obviously the governments ability to collect information on foreign targets operating outside of the United States that are utilizing u. S. Commercial Services Like telephone or email. It is absolutely critical in terms of what we can do to be able to understand the scope and scale and sophistication of the threat whether or not is being able to identify all users that are providing the disastrous chemical into the United States will being able too provide insight of what is happening to hostages in gaza. And this is the authority the so essential for our nation i would also tell you that also the authority, has is been identified by a series of commissions is the most transparent Surveillance Authority our nation has. As a director National Security i will tell you, that our focus is not only National Security is also the production of our Civil Liberties and this is an authority with the oversight and the transparency that allows both of those things to occur. I think the report that was done by the president intelligence advisory board, showed that. It is about a protection of civil liberty other is the oversight that occurs. And i think we come back to that i think that very critical report but it is also 59 percent of the president ial daily book is based upon 72 authority in 20 e collection and nsa, is obviously focused based upon 1702 allows and then the ability for us to have an insight of what is going on rapidly and if something we turn to 702, it is that important for our nation. Andor we have all the Deputy Director of the fbi here with us this morning as well. I think he would say the same thing. I think so and i think that if you take a look at from the perspective of nsa or cia the National Counterterrorism schism in a system really happy i certainly they would back us up in terms of what we need to be able to do do and be able to provide indications warnings then be able to also provide obviously the warning to people maybe to have been attacked in cyberspace something 72 allows us to do. What happens if it does not get reauthorized. It will be havens reauthorizd im confident that us what our communities focus on the congress isat focus on we will continue to work it is one of the things we do a an entity out and and itt is our number one priority. Theres a roomful of people who think understand the importance ofs this. Talk to senators response in women. There will be a vote so thank you for that paul you are very passionate on that in this is a very important tool. Lets give it a little bit had this is largely an industry audience although we do have a number of government folks here as well. Can you announce the creation of the a. I. Security center are official intelligentnt Security Center over two months ago as a form similar to this. Progress to be made and how is it going and when think im really interested in in the intersection between that center in the collaboration sensor that i thank you so really up and running and doing good work we have no the a. I. Security. This cybersecurity collaboration. Will be a. I. Security center just like the cybersecurity collaboration think that its important to take a bit of a step back to say, one of the really interesting things about our agency with theab past five years is the fact that what we do hasse not changed much in the seven decades that the nsa is been inexistent we do cybersecurity and but healthy we do a completely different pretty and so if you think about we start withng the Cybersecurity Collaboration Center and it stood up in 2019 event now one partner congressional basin now it is 750 partners and being able to operate on shells and classified to be maple to provide that canary nicole my look to what might be happening in the series networks for the world. We would not have done that six years a go. But onlyof understand the importance of this collaboration and partnership and why is so important as we fastforward to the a. I. Security center, who does not believe that Artificial Intelligence will probably be the most transformative thing that we will experience in our lifetime so that transformative, we have to ensure that the information theto infrastructure then, ability for a. I. To operae within this nation has to be secure to National Security work comes in is what we stood up the Artificial Intelligence Security Center of the past two months, we have stood up our organization we obviously been able to bring together series of partners same in the past couple of weeks, recently an informational port on a. I. Security infrastructure in a with herur partner in the uk and incest others to talk about the importance of being an interest or from threats to it and so we see this as a huge step forward in a. I. For the future. Undoubtedly a lot of talent in this room that is very interested in a ready and willing to help you there and so im sure they were interested in hearing that. In order and so you had when i willl call a goal this year to hire 3000 at least 3000 cybersecurity professionals. How is that going for less than a month awayha from the end of e year and areom you meeting your goals and how are you assimilating that. Also is a great question i think she is exactly right, and if you think about nsa and a lot of times we think about the incredibleib Technological Capabilities in the high computers there but at the end of the day what makes us the agency that we are is our talent and so and she indicated our goal for the hiring 3000 votes audacious goal of moving quickly to meet that, but i think that is only one piece of it we think about recruiting. We do fairly well weve made improvements to our recruiting in terms of beingcr able to outreach even outreach to make careers that are leaving the Tech Industry that might be interested in perhaps a little bit more balance being able to serve the nation and being able to attract them as well. Retention we can recruit all the people that we want to without the retention, they will be going right out the door so we stood at the future ready workforce that approaches our workforce much in the same way we would approach National Security challenge and how do we do things differently to obtain artwork first natalie look at this generally and howan to be thing about a population that is over 50 percent millennial engine see. In ten years ago 70 percent workforce was baby boomers and five years ago gen z in the millennials overtook the baby boomers and five years from now, it will be 70 percent will be gen zz e millennials office te workforce this coming into our agency so this is an agency that is looking much differently and how we retain a workforce in the final piece some of the area we still have work to do, that is the third arm returned. Why is it so hard when you leave the government and perhaps come back when you want to come back and i never stay for three decades for service if you sit for fivefi years any five for te private sector for five years, why not come back plus one of the areas software to do that we are looking at. And there are any number of folks want to come back so when you crack that happily sure that across the community and across the department because there are folks who want to come back and or folks who have been working industry entire career and at the end of it they want to come into the senior level of this not so hard to do and so ill give you that is a challenge. I look forward to it. And so i have a ton of questions just going to keep going and that we do have a colg question cards pretty and is it we do have a few thank you and i will look at these as i asked my next question first and am going to give it actually, think that i wanted to ask on his held piece, because i that you have an initiative to bring folks on board before they were cleared, to work in an unclassified state perhaps the Collaboration Center as that taken off and how was i going. It has and i think that we done in the locations so is a Global Organization we started to look and say to possibility that weo could have facility tt is in texas that can attract the talent in the workforce we are looking for is moving maybe not as quickly as we like but again i think that this is part of the culture change that we have to address is an agency as well and i know the energy is doing out of their going out in st. Louis where you know the borders is halfou of it in the space so taking advantage of the talent is really critical wherever you can find it. Thats so lets pivot and looking toward the future, quantum the big buzzword out there now is being quantum ready. Has Agency Working to be quantum ready as winners quantum computing or algorithms or introducing you know that will make your job tougher. And so what we look at quantum we say that agencies founded on two different really important things about we make coding we break who owed list of a making code as we think about Quantum Computers we think many of you probably saw the 60 minutes sorry best we can about and thinks National Security does is the key codes and cryptography the International Systems International Systems obviously enduring about the Intelligence Committee and department of defense pretty is national manager. For our National Security systems, where we are at is ensuring that we have been able to deliver the algorithms that are going to an event a lot of the different quantum resistant encryption the nation will be able to do and also working with mr. Chair the algorithms of the first four algorithms have been developed as many no national scaredy member can 2022, indicated that are nation needed to move to quantum resistant encryption by the mid 2030s for the path to be able to deliver the algorithms that are so critical for that i think the question becomes able to implement those and operationalize that type of encryption tour National Security systems and importantly a private sector pretty. Is a very important obviously a lot of the crown jewels from the work they do supporting the department in the Intelligence Community and i will tell you as a private citizen i am happy to hear that and you are on page so well done there. And south one of our toughest mpcompetitors thus adversaries when it comes to quantum, china talk about china as a leasing front and you also in your opening remarks had obviously a number of other adversaries out there that we are always trying to stay a step ahead of and so staying a step ahead of them looking towards the future, while balancing israel and hamas Russia Ukraine, africa what is going on the continent their pretty how do you manage the balance the Current Operations which you have not seen a case like this in a long time versus being ready to echo the military and i would say is like a binary approach to our threats you have piece of war and we were ready for the soviet union to come across the plains in western germany and to be t able to encounter them and be able to mobilize their ports and today look at it d differently we look at it National Defense strategy had a series of campaigns of being able to campaign a competition and conflict and being able to do that means that you are alwayss persistently engaged with your a adversaries and this is what cyberspace is telling us, we dont want to be reactive we want to be able to causally be engaged with our adversaries of what they are doing is something about that, we think a lot about how to achieve agility and agility through partnerships you know United States has incredible partners wi