Meant. Popular the time dhs is present and they see the infrastructure and this purity is really a supporting function helping to provide information and overbuild man purses to help those stakeholders manage risk to theirs systems. To do so we tried to have an information with the information sharing and analysis and was stood up in 2018 and since that time has two of the states it has more than 2500 local addictions deployed intrusion Protection Centers for helping to understand what type of traffic is targeting election infrastructure across the states. It has really been a rapid evolution of the information of the communal defense in this sector. We have been able to take some of the best practices learned with doing this type of support for other structures and apply it to our support with election infrastructure. Thats a little different we talk about the seventh and of effort supporting partisan efforts with campaigns and Party Committees which we have the same Vulnerability Man
Status of u. S. , u. K. Relations. This is about a half an hour. Thank you so much for joining us. If you havent already signed up to my weekly newsletter, its free and you can sign up at mrpolitico. Com, global. And its my pleasure to introduce the new British Ambassador to the United States, karen pierce. Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Its such a pleasure to have you here. Weve got about 30 minutes of a chat now and well get to our questions as well during the conversation. If you havent sent them already, post them on twitter u. S. Ing askpolitico. Weve got great ones rolling in. And ambassador, i wont spend most time about policy, but were in such strange times i thought maybe we could ask questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Maybe lets start with the border stuff first. Youve got experience in the u. N. And conflict zones. Thinking about to all of those eras, whats changed from when you start you had out in diplomacy . W
Im behalf of the Auburn University president and the board of trustees of our university, i i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Todays event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and vertical infrastructure security here at Auburn University. We have likely over the past few weeks used the term unprecedented more than any other time in our history. The covid19 pandemic have brought about many changes in our country, and affected virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As an institution we here at Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing their expertise towards fighting the covid19 pandemic and its impact on our health, our economy, and on our way of life. The department of Homeland Security that youre going to hear from today plays a lead role in the nations response. We are honored to have secretary wolf join us today to disc
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