Democracy regarding Disinformation Campaigns. The remarks came during the symposium hosted by the office of the federal commission chair, pan america and Stanford University cyber policy centers digital incubator. This is two hours. We have a very important guest with a limited timeframe. So were going to get started. I am Ellen Weintraub, the chair from the federal Election Commission and im delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy information integrity in the 2020 elections. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and stanfords Global Policy inkub incubator. This has weaponized our most cherished freedoms to sow disorder. Here in the u. S. , we saw russia deploy disinformation as one of its tools when in the words of the Mueller Report, the russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systemic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout Americas Intelligence Community in the halls of congress, by the de
Now more from the Cybersecurity Conference hosted by billington cybersecurity in washington, d. C. This Panel Discusses the importance of public and private collaboration as well as enhassing cloud security. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Okay, good afternoon, everybody, again. Welcome to the second part of our program. Id like to invite you back and well bring our next panelist here. Thank you again for keeping your conversations a little bit more quiet on the outside by the booths so we can listen to our panelists. So this next panel is very interesting called new models of public, private cyber collaboration. The moderator is mr. Will ash. He is a senior director of Security Sales used Public Sector global Security Sales for cisco. Joining him on the panel is Major General ed wilson, United States air force retired, secretary of defense, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in the office of the undersecretary of defense. Also joining us is claire caroma from the Defense
Captioning performed by vitac through our cloudbased shared service platform, its a fed ramped cloud where we get the sensors out for those small and micro agencies and feed that data rather than into individual dashboards at their sites, feed it up into a fed ramped cloud where each agency has their multitenant dashboard. Thats been a great accomplishment for the program in terms of for the first time were getting near realtime visibility of those smaller micro agencies and helping them get the capabilities they need to protect their Critical Mission systems. One of the early wins for the program, once we were getting automated discovery capabilities out to the network, we were able to see on average across the federal government that there were 75 more assets than what were being reported up manually. So from that measurement we want to continue to build on that. Now we have all of this vulnerability information feeding up to the Agency Dashboard summarized up to the federal dashboar
When it comes to Cyber Security threats and the way it affects our nation. And we have seen high profile hacks in our Health Care Sector and weve brought it two individuals, robert lord chief at protenus. And hell give a presentation to us and talk about this important topic as well as jen, the ceo of ehi. Without further ado ill let the first presentation get started. Started. Thanks, greg and thanks so much to everyone. I fairly give talks that are standing room only, so, really appreciate your guys interest today. As greg mentioned im robert lord cofounder and president and chief officer of protenus. A lot of the information is from protenus and im not speaking on behalf of organizations today. To work in a clinic that focused on treating hivpositive patients in baltimore when i was in med school. One of the things you and click the about this population other than their an absolutely wonderful, really complex, rewarding population to work with is they have extraordinary concerns ab
This morning we heard where we are today with cybersecurity. So, you know, my career in cybersecurity started when i joined the National Security agency and the offensive mission set and that gives you a perspective of how to defend against very advanced actors so the point of this panel this morning is to talk about the priorities but with a focus of how we resist attack. Okay . So on our panel today, we have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are really focused on Important Missions and are critical to the National Security. In my opinion, given my experience i think offense always wins. And with that mindset, i want to take a look at what were doing today and how we can give you all Lessons Learned and some front line knowledge about things to take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, though. Scaling. We all lots of systems. We are certainly dealing with a scale attack surface a