Transcripts For CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today 2015031

CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today March 16, 2015

Even more dialogue and probably more partnership with the government on this. This is a serious issue and will become a competitive issue. Is this deciding i want to be in Computer Science in fifth grade or fourth grade or is this something i can recover from if im 16 or 18 or 20 . I think theres vary opinions on that and i welcome the other panelists opinions on that, but what the data has suggested is that if you dont have the right math and Science Education k through 12 and especially through high school f you dont go to college f you dont have that basic math and science foundation, its hard to recover from. You dont have to be a Computer Scientist but the basic analytical skill youre going to need. So, we spend a lot of our intel teach, which has been a 25year foundational effort at intel, on teaching in the classroom, as part of our community effort, we send our own engineers out to teach k through 12 and to really teach teachers how to be better match and science teachers and also teach classes as part of their community service. And i think we just have to continue to extend and extend and really get focused. Diversity is also, of course one of the big initiatives for me but we know young girls drop out in middle school from math and science. So thats the other big focus area for us. Half of the workforce, we need to keep them interested in math and science. Let them know theyre school jobs. Theyre not boring jobs you know. That kind of thing. One of the things ive often thought about, and this is a question for all of you, is how do we make it real at a young age for how cool these jobs are . What can you do . Do i have to be the aplus math student throughout high school you know, and have taken college math at 16 in order to be eligible . I think theres too much ambiguity about what does it take to be eligible . I also think theres not enough of a collaborative process we go and legislature as women to young girls but the question is can they really feel this is a fun thing as a group you know, as a seventh or eighth grader that i want to be a participant in . How do we make more of that happen so im not the outlier in my group doing this and im more the norm . Im living the dream as the mother of a Junior High School girl and middle school girl and elementary school. Youre right. Theres all the dade data around k through 12 education. I was also a teacher before i went to law school. Thats the societal attitudes about whats cool and getting your kids into coding camps and coding class. My friend cameron who runs code dot org. Trying to get it as part of our curriculum. We need intelligent people coding and creating algorithm ims that work for society. We need a diverse workforce, that creates a imbedded Technology Well all be living in. It starts at home. It starts at the youngest ages. It starts with letting my daughters play on the computer probably more than anybody thinks is appropriate. They say, mom, i want to be able to program this game. I want to learn how to do this . Well be looking for coding camps this summer in the d. C. Area. Its about attitudes its about education and its about being aware of the words youre choosing when youre talking to your young people in your house and in your schools. We go out and do a lot of this talking but i know way up there there theres a lot of women, college students, way cooler than we are, that should be using their time as well going back into k through 12 and talking about their journey and whats happening and, you know these coding camps are really helping. By the way, stanford runs some of them. So, thank you. Terrific. Terrific. Were almost out of time. Let me just raise one last question. Its a big question, though. You know what are you hearing internationally from foreign governments and regulators about Cyber Security . I just came back from a large trip india, and Cyber Security is a big thing. Protecting the ways, the way were talking right now. The other one is the fear of what i call the balkansization. Does this increasing chauvinist. We can keith keep our competitive advantage in terms of the computers and Payment Systems and phones so on. I consider that to be a bigger issue thats floating around right now. In addition to all the facts, we have to get our act together on the rules of the road in terms of justice and law pursuing criminals where they are. Thats work that needs to happen government to government, but theres this other issue percolating of international chauf nichl we need to be careful of. I completely agree with that. I, too, just returned from i must have followed you guys through india and europe. I have expressed this concern. Im very concerned. Its under the guise of Data Protection when i think its an economic issue for us. Peter, do you have a last comment . We operate in about 90 countries and a key part of the history of this country that was started in china 95 years ago is its ability to reduce the fear of interacting across borders. And the fear has grown in a way that i think inhibits world trade and growth. And it has to be balanced by a collaborative dialogue between governments. I think the private sector can only go so far in building bridges between societies that have really different views on privacy and the opportunities of innovation that come from a more open data society. Brian . Its complex because its obviously we have a tough time just in the United States. Now think of all that times the number of countries times all the things. Its enhanced effort to do it. I agree theres a protectionism that has potentially other motives, but it is really real. Youre starting to see it actually affect the ability for Global Companies to operate. You have to store your data here, use these providers use this technology you cant have it outside. If you think about a Global Financial system, a Global Delivery of any product in the world thshgts is actually working very much against it that i think it takes governments to operate to say, its okay to have multinational companies. It also ruins the potential for the internet to be this great collaborative enabler this place people can express themselves freely and communicate across societies and cultures. The promise of the internet is a truly global way to help people all around the world create a better life for themselves and their families. As you could tell we could spend another 45 minutes just talking about this challenge. Lets give our panel a real round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. That was terrific. Thank you. The house returned today from a weeklong district. Theyre working on six bills dealing with house care and theyll consider legislation on the epas rulemaking. Cspan will have live coverage of the house. Senate starting the work with several executive nominations. Theyll vote this afternoon on moving ahead with Human Trafficking bill and awaiting action for loretta lynch. Can you watch the senate on cspan2. Senate Homeland Security committee is looking into why the Social Security administration counts some people as deceased when theyre not. A woman whos been declared dead will testify along with Social Security Inspector General who looked into the agencys record keeping. That starts at 4 00 eastern. Well have live coverage. Transportation secretary anthony fox talks about plans to improve the nations roads and bridges and how that will improve international u. S. Trade. Well have live coverage as he speaks at council on Foreign Relations at 6 00 eastern here on cspan 3. Tonight on the communicators, fcc on Net Neutrality ruling municipal broad band and subsidized broadbrand program life line. What i am proposing that we do is overall the lifeline program, make it concurrent and in sync with the information age. Challenge those providers to give more to their consumers, the prices and opportunities have gone down have been more explosive for the rest of us. It should be for a lifeline consumers. Get those providers out of the certification business. That has been the number one problem weve been seeing with not so positive headlines. It is a vulnerability in the system we need to plug. Tonight at 8 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan2. A look at national Cyber Security and nkick with assistant secretary of Cyber Security of the Homeland Security department. This was hosted by the American Bar Association in wash d. C. This is about 50 minutes. Were trying to throw cspan off because they focused on that one and widen the lens. You got it. Thanks for braving the cold. Did everybody get a copy of the blue book outside . Thats your reward for coming. Please be sure and get one. Show your friends and neighbors, put it on your coffee table because it marks you as special you came out on the coldest day in the last 100 years. Allow me for just a second to let you peek behind the abas bureaucratic curtain. And i say that with all fondness. Every year the Standing Committee is reviewed by a group of folks at the aba. They look at the topics such as programs publications outreach things the community has done in the Legal Community. Holly, of course, puts our reports together. Every year we receive top reviews. In preparation for this years review, we were looking at our Previous Year and what we had done. What our speakers spoke on at these breakfast events, our annual review, that sort of thing. We noticed something very, very interesting. That is this all of our programs all of our publications, all of our Legal Community outreach mirrored the current legal issues of the day. And that is what set us apart from all the other aba committees. I know that could be shocking. We are both timely and relevant to the National Security discussion. In keeping with that tradition, we have a unique format. First of all, we have a tag team. Dr. Andy ozment and Donald Sutherland they both work for suzanne spalding, alumni of our committee. Please tell her we say hello. They will talk about their offices challenges opportunities and priorities in the Cyber Security world. You have their very very impressive bios so i wont take up precious time reading them to you. I will note that yes, they do work for dhs. Well have donations at the end to help pay their salaries at the end of the week. Let me welcome them to our breakfast and please join me in welcoming dr. Ozment and mr. Sutherland. Well, good morning. Thank you, jim, for the introduction. Holly, for arranging all this. Holly always does such a great job pulling off these events and we enjoy working with her. If i can just give you a tiny bit more introduction. Im the associate general counsel at the department of Homeland Security. Im the associate general counsel for National Protection programs directochltd rate. Andy is my client. So, were having some Attorney Client discussion here this morning. Its privileged. Its privileged so please dont tell anybody about the conversation were about to have. Originally i reached out to holly and harvey and jim and talked about the idea of doing a briefing on some of the new legislation and the new legislative proposals the new executive order we knew was about to come. They said great lets do that. The more i thought about it the more i thought, well, this is a great way to put an audience to sleep. Is to have a lawyer talking about the mechanics of new legislation. So, andy agreed to come with me. We get to do a tag team. Im the playbyplay commentator and he gets to do the color commentary. He gets to tell you what all these laws mean new authorities mean and daily operations. Absolutely. So, i was trying to think of a good comparison. You look like a sports talk radio crowd out there, dont you . This were like mike and mike on the radio. Well, no hes mike and im well, andys not a big sports fan, so ill have to explain that. Mike and mike is mike is the brains and mike is the braun. One is the arm chair fan and the other was an actual football player. Excellent. I dont know how that works with us actually but youre the actual practitioner and im the straight man. I think i just got called the braun and not the brain, so im going to take that back. Well i had the opportunity now. We hope this will be a discussion back and forth and it will be very interactive for you and Good Opportunity for you to discuss with us later. Well start by giving you a broad sense of why this is an important time for us to be talking to you. This is a significant moment for dhs in the Cyber Security field. In late december the Congress Passed and the president signed several new pieces of legislation to provide dhs and others with new authorities in the Cyber Security arena. Then just a few weeks later in early january, the president sent a new legislative package to the congress on Cyber Security again, several of which strengthened dhss role and address some other issues as well. The president then came to our work site and gave a speech about Cyber Security issues from our work site, which was a great experience for our workforce. Vk of course, the white house Cyber Security summit was last week. Our secretary was very involved with that, a number of the rest of our leadership. And then at the summit, the president released a new executive order on information sharing well talk about in a bit that talked about strength of dhss role. This is a significant moment for us. Andy, you want to expand on that at all . Ill highlight it. Cyber and dhs was a long time in startup mode. When dhs first started it pulled together agencies from across government but they had they were existing agencies, so you had something to draw upon as you started dhs. Cyber was really new for dhs. You know didnt pull upon an existing Historic Agency with great back bench of capability. So, weve been in this surge mode of creating something since the inception of dhs. What i would say the last few months recognized weve come into our own in the last few years. We have a level of capability now that we have extraordinary demand from our customers. And i would say that our customers are threefold in Cyber Security. The federal civilian Government Agencies, state, local, tribal, territorial and the private sector. What weve seen is a few years ago you have to used to go out and really sell people on what we could do for them. Now theyre beating down the door. I think weve seen that recognized by the president coming to speak at our organization. By the congress formalizing our roles and responsibilities and by the executive actions that have come lately, really giving us even more work to do. I think its a recognition that the reward for good work is more work. And were definitely in that position right now. I think there are some great opportunities for dhs, but my client is recognizing there are responsibilities associated with the new opportunities and i think its great that we have such a capable team led by assistant secretary ozment on this. We thought we would give you a sense of what dhss unique contribution, what we see dhss unique contribution is in this field. Of course, Many Organizations in government and outside that have an Important Role to play. We were just talking at breakfast about the National Association of attorney generals and their role. There are so many players. We thought andy and i thought we would emphasize three particular areas where dhs plays a unique contribution. The first is that dhs is a strong record of imbedding privacy and Civil Liberties into its programs. Dhs had the first statutorily created office for civil rights and Civil Liberties and chief privacy officer. When the Department First started, the Homeland Security act incorporated a number of interesting endeavors, firsts. One of them was to create these two civil libertarian positions that reported directly to the secretary. Many of you may know i was the first officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at the department. I started the first day with the chief privacy officer, conner kelly is now the president for center for democracy and technology. I remember those first days we started the first days in orientation and started looking at each other, what do we make of all this now . We had offices next to one another and shared an assistant and tried to figure out where to go with all of this. That perspective has really helped me as ive come back and really been so pleased to see that it didnt just stay on an org chart but these commitments to Civil Liberties and privacy have been incorporated into the daily life of National Protection and Program Director and others in the department. The commitment to privacy has been written into strategy. Its been written into operational level and dail

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