Viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we need to be able to get ahead of the curve. Our conference is titled securing our future, and it is meant to be a strategic set of issues that looks across our various portfolio issues. Let me ask everyone to please put their phones in quiet mode and, when you do ha
When a cyber attack rises to level of warfare. Would require policymakers to consider the ways in which can the damage from a cyber attack to a conventional attack. It would require the definition in its law of war manual read more at the hill. Com. Back up on the hill today capitol hill Coverage Today of the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and how her implementing new rules for physicians payments under medicar the the acting director would testify and our live coverage starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan 3. More now from this conference on National Security and counter the the department of Homeland Security talks about deputy secretary talks about efforts to increase Cyber Security threat information sharing between government and private sectors. And public and private sectors talk about what they are doing to encourage cooperation in combatting cyber threats. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for tak
Share i sharing information to deal with Cyber Security threats. Its two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules. Let me also welcome our cspan viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we n
Assistant secretary in the department of Homeland Security for border immigration and trade policy. Were also supposed to be joined by tom bush, but he had a illness that came up this morning, so was unable to join us. Well proceed with these three fine panelists for discussion of terror travel related issues and what we can be doing to prevent terrorists from exploiting the travel system in support of their objectives to carry out attacks in the United States, over seas and our allies which is a key element of their efforts in term in pursuit of carrying out attacks. You know well have a moderated discussion. Ill jump right in and put the first question to seth. If you look at the, you know, current terrorism of threat that we have with isis, very diffuse threat, with al qaeda, a variety of other groups, its very different than the threat that existed when many of the u. S. Government programs to prevent and disrupt terrorist travel were created 15 years ago, 10 years ago. So you have
Will moderate the first session this morning with the deputy secretary of dhs. Mike balboni is a longtime friend, coconspirator on a whole host of issues. He serves on our board and more importantly has served in numerous roles related to Homeland Security, including the Homeland Security adviser to two different governors in the state of new york, a former senator, state senator in new york who really picked up and defense of a lot of the Homeland Security issues from the status of the. Also resides from my hometown, long island. He represented long island, as you can see im wearing the islanders color today. But without further ado it introduced mike balboni who is ceo of redland strategies. You see him a lot on our tv screens throughout the country. Mike, the floor is yours. Thank you. [applause] good morning ladies and gentlemen. I dont know if you share my sense of enthusiasm that its great when you come from the hinterlands of the state did you come to washington, d. C. And to ge