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The second piece is really warning. since november, you've seen the department of homeland security, epa, treasury, all going to their sectors giving specific warnings, saying put your shields up. follow best security practices. know when there are geopolitical tensions and when an actor has sophisticated capabilities, we have to be on highest alert. and finally insure we make it harder for adversaries to conduct cyber operations. >> were you really on the frontlines of this and great to have this opportunity. i know how busy you must be. see, thanks for taking the time with us today. and mo...

Vulnerabilities, too. you might remember the solar wind pack, and the software supply chain, multitude of potential attack vectors in the supply chain and remember, we've seen multiple major cyber attacks under joe biden's watch. the pipeline, jbs, microsoft exchange, china-led state hack. devastating pandemic policies. i think striking another blow to supply chain would be like kicking us when we're down. >> todd: do we have the defensive capabilities to stop putin? >> i really think we do. the entire government apparatus in the u.s. mobilized to say, private sector, shields up. that is from ...

Sophisticated cyber i happening? we have a - sophisticated cyber defence system here with a bunch of talented people. we have seen an increase in attempts and it has been pretty remarkable. we got the shields up and have not had any issues. so just to give you some numbers here, typically, what is normalfor us is about 3 million a week but with the ukraine situation that increased above 30 million a week. so this is normal stuff but, like i said, the shields are up in the administration has been working with us to make sure we get support for this and we have not had any issues to date.— iss...

M mandiant company discovered it by chance. the question was, a technique they used to get into that software supply, have they used that to get into the thousands of companies that do software supply to other companies? >> what is the option for the biden administration responding? how does the u.s. respond if putin does this? >> first thing we want to do and we're doing it now is to raise our defenses. i said years ago that we should do shields up and the homeland security department has taken that slogan on. shields up. there are things we can do now that we wouldn't normally do day to day,...

To pair with health and human services to be sure we shore up our critical health infrastructure. we know vladimir putin has the capability -- >> but can that be done in time? we're talking about shoring it up now. this is a threat that existed prior it russia's invasion of ukraine, as we know. how concern ready you this may be too little too late? >> i don't think it is too little too late. i think we have to heighten our awareness because we have been doing these things through dhs, si they have a shields up program, they have been working with critical infrastructure. we have seen our hospi...