Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
Interview of the new acting director of cisa, the department of Homeland Securitys key cyberofficial branden wells. Ill be back at the end of the day for the summits final session, a covering with three of the top Cyber Security voices on capitol hill. Senator mark warner, representative will hurd and representative lauren underwood. Pie would also strongly encourage you today, take a look at our new report released yesterday by the aspen Cyber Security group that laid out a National Cyber agenda for the Biden Administration and the 117th congress. It outlines actionable steps, the art of the possible, as we call it in the cybergroup. And help build a more secure foundation for the internet and our digital economy. A full report is available at aspenvi aspencybersummit. Org. And many of the key voices that went into writing that report youve heard from at the summit already and today. Im pleased to introduce my friend from npr who will be speaking with fbi Deputy Assistant director tan
The determination by the Planning Department that the proposed project is categorically exempt from further environmental review. Item 38 is a motion conditionally reversing the determination, and item 39 is the motion to prepare the findings. I believe you may be muted, mr. President. President yee i believe these items were continued to a later date. Supervisor mandelman, did you have any remarks . Supervisor mandelman yes. I did not anticipate we would be continuing this today. Weve continued it several times. Yes, this has been pending for us for sometime, initially, it was delayed because of shelter in place. More recently, we have continued it a couple of times because of the because of health issues. The counselor for the appellants is sue hester, who i think folks know, and she believed that she would be able to present and participate today, and then turned out, for reasons beyond her control, that she would not, but she promises that she will be available if and will not ask
Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
South of hartford. And i wish his story were exceptional, but you have all heard these stories, my republican and democratic friends. We will thank you for your continued support of the Affordable Care act. Our family has extensive medical needs, and we rely, we rely on the preexisting conditions and no lifetime cap coverage provisions that the a. C. A. Provides. Both of our sons have Serious Health issues. Harrisons developmentally impaired, has a rare genetic disorder, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, and a rare form of intractable epilepsy, characterized by multiple uncontrolled daily seizures. Imagine that. Imagine having a son like that. Jacob who just turned 15 has hemophilia a with an inhibitor. If you are unfamiliar with this disease, it means his body not only lacks the protein needed to clot his blood in the case of an injury but also rejects the typical medicine used to treat this disorder. This means that often the only way to treat his often spontaneous internal bleeds is a s