Transcripts For CSPAN Discussion On Infrastructure Security 20240712

I think it is really wonderful a weat we are having , the lot of zoom issues Wilson Center mag and a number of the rest of you on this phone. The topic is what is critical . Playbook from 10 and everything in between. It is not as much fun to see you in person. If anyone can make conversation interesting is this program. We are doing by the nations chief officer chris, director of the department of Homeland Security cybersecurity and infrastructure. Leave it to congress to include security twice in your title, chris. Chris will talk about how the department has protected americas Critical Infrastructure in the past and what we need to do going forward. Has been apart of the Advisory Committee and the Homeland Committee experts group. Year at theup last hacking conference in las vegas. I was there to cut i was there, too. I was a dinosaur in the room. He was Senior Advisor to the assistant secretary Infrastructure Protection i was part of microsofts Governor Affairs team. Chris has an impressive command i know this from talking to him of the threats we face and has been at the forefront of tackling our Elections Security challenges in ensuring our networks remain resilient during a Global Pandemic and when the workforce even when the workforce all moved online from home were security is verified. Chris will give remarks under newly minted Public Policy Melissa Griffith to interview him. , homepanel of geniuses centurylink and kathleen will dive deeper into Critical Infrastructure both digital and physical and just before turning this over to chris, let me say again how blessed i had been to have making and my life for decades. She has taught me lots of stuff. Please welcome, i think by phone, the director, chris. I actually i dont know if youre seeing me, but i was able to do a couple runarounds here at the office. Does the video come through . Yeah. Okay. Great. We see you, but your mouth isnt moving. You may be frozen a bit, but we can hear you. That all right. Heres what im doing. Okay. Okay. All right. Lets try this here. Okay. All right. I think i got it now. Sorry. Its giving us some challenges here. Thats much better. Theres thats much better. Its much better. Ok. All right. Heres what were doing. I will give you a little bit of cisa and what we do. Thank you, congresswoman, for that overview. I will talk to you a little bit about the things that were focused on right now and some of the developments and shifts weve seen in the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management space. So as pointed out, we are the cyber and infrastructure security agency. Just for shorthand purposes, i drop that first security. We made the argument that the Second Security was an appropriate modifier, so that we didnt need Cyber Security, but congress, at the time, felt it was important to have Cyber Security and infrastructure security. Its a better name than we used to have, the National Protection and programs directorate, which if you can tell me what that means, ill owe you 100. It was not a very descriptive name for an organization that is the nations risk adviser. Primarily, our authorities are voluntary, Publicprivate Partnership oriented, and what that really means, more than anything, is i cant make anyone do anything. Weve got to really understand where the risk is out there, the shifts, the trends, the best practices that are happening across industry and in government, distill them down into something thats usable, shareable, actionable, and then get them out to as many of our stakeholders as we possibly can. Shouldnt be much of a surprise to anyone, but the United States Critical Infrastructure community is quite large, and, in fact, you know, being kind of the american go big or go home approach, 16 Critical Infrastructure sectors. I say that to be able to contrast it against some of our partners in europe and elsewhere that, in some cases, only have five national Critical Infrastructure sectors, or eight is probably the most ive seen, particularly in europe. So we have a large we take you live now to the white house where the president is we do style ourselves as the nations risk advisor. We are not the nations risk manager. The nations risk manager would have more of a compulsory authority, where i could tell people to do things, then they would do it. But, instead, we ask people to do things, gently. We give them useful guidance that actually provides some value and we find that we take you live now to the white house where the president a newsduled to give conference to reporters. Pres. Trump it seems to me, from what i said, it was a shooting. It was Law Enforcement shot someone. Seems to be the suspect, and the suspect is now on the way to the hospital. I cannot tell you the condition of the suspect. There was nobody else injured, no other Law Enforcement injured. And i just want to i will get onto the press conference, but i want to thank secret service. They are fantastic. The job they did [indiscernible] pres. Trump from what i understand, the answer is yes. With what type of weapon . Pres. Trump i do not know that. Was it a male or female suspect . Pres. Trump they