Threat to projects and Homeland Security counterterrorism program. He will be speaking on treasuries war, the unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. One final reminder. When this panel concludes we have to clear the room just like we did yesterday so the hotel can set up for lunch about 50 minutes and then well come back in and start our lunch program. Gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this morning, mary derosa, distinguished visitor from georgetown law. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everybody. Im very excited to be here as we have a really terrific panel. We are here to talk about cybersecurity, and how we address these significant and growing threat from criminals, hackers, terrorists, anarchists, and other nations who are spying on us, stealing from us, intruding, disrupting and potentially attacking our private sector government infrastructure. I dont feel like i have to say very much about the threat, gives a lot of background, particularly in this crowd
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, saying, here are key areas to improve. And making sure the ad
From Anbar Province in the 1991 gulf war, and now it gets to the long range rocket threat to israel from southern lebanon in 2006 or from gaz a saw let me intervene. You just listed examples to allies in the midst of war. If its 1972, the American Public is facing 25,000 Nuclear Weapons targeting it. So thats where i think the, in terms of it may be existential to those local actors, but in terms of the American Publics viewpoint of it, is it viewed that, to me, is the disconnect. We dont view it as existential. With yeah. I think thats correct. And so, of course, its incumbent upon the three of you to explain that. So, bill and then were going to open it up. [laughter] you know, very quickly, first, you know, to my good friend, michael hanlon, who may be regretting having tendered this invitation this is why we want you. Go for it. The point, you know, the point i was making does not pertain principally to the wars that we are now in, it pertains to the willingness of the American Peo
While, more reluctance on their part to share what they have, and while its not going to be permanent, issue, you know, what happens if theres shortage of information about a terrorist attack, and for whatever reason, because of political climate, because of what snowden created, that information is not passed . Thats what i worry about. Host do you think were out of time and its the last question where our government and certainly cia, too, needs to just assume that things are going to get out, and they, then, in other words, secrets will not remain secret, especially in the environment where we depend on the internet for i. T. To keep the secrets, and they have to calibrate that and act differently . Guest yeah, we talked about this before. Leaks are inevitable. There were leaks in the cia 35 years ago, and theres going to be leaks 35 years from now. Leaks are a facts of life in the intelligence business and business community, as you know, and so we have to just live with it and rec
Conduct tests, modeling, simulation. I was talking to a company the other day about really large company, how long it took them to to get approval to buy some kind of Software Package to do some modeling. And this is the for one of the bands of the future, they had a lot of stake in. So, its not just the government. Its a lot of folks that are hurting for money, and resources. So, any way to kind of filter that back into r d and testing, that would be great. Anyone else . Go ahead. I just want to add, i think with regard to doing the testing and the studies, from an industry privilege, we actually embarked on a monitoring activity to assess the type of emissions that were enculpberred in specific bands and figure out what impact would those emissions have on an imculp were going to share that with the Regulatory Community and dod as a way to move things forward with regard to how can you better share between federal and nonfederal assets. I think its a great idea. The idea of using the