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The room and are thrilled to have richard as one of those. He is the former scholar in residence at the National Security agency and is currently at the National Defense. Or national war college. National war college. And aaron hughes who sat down as the Deputy Assistant secretary for all things cyber at the office of the secretary of defense brings a lot of policy expertise as well as a wonk at heart, so can marry those up exceedingly well. And last, but certainly not least, rear admiral will metz, former j2 or head of intelligence for u. S. Pacific command, Cyber Commander and has had roles inside the Intelligence Community as well as, obviously, the u. S. Navy. And is also one of our senior fellows. So thank you to the panelists here. I want to go deep with some of the deterrence related questions. And i think, aaron, maybe start with you, to sort of paint the picture. And articulating some of the challenges and opportunities to get to a deterrent approach. But what should we be thi
Cyber networks. It was part of a George Washington University Conference on cybersecurity policy. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Ive got the timekeeper here. Im going to very briefly introduce our panelists and immediately to my left is Richard Andres who i might note and failed to mention earlier, we announced our new coal hort of senior fellows and we have a few in the room and are thrilled to have richard as one of those. He is the former scholar in residence at the National Security agency and is currently at the National College defense university, national war college, so and aaron hughs who recently stepped down as the Deputy Assistant secretary for all things cyber at the office of the secretary of defense, brings a lot of policy expertise as well as a wonk at heart so can marry those up exceedingly well and last but certainly not least, admiral will mets who the former j2 or head of intelligence for u. S. Pacific command and has also had roles inside the Intelligence Com
Well, good morning. We meet in organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin i would like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security Sub Committee. This hearing builds upon the good work they and their Sub Committee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a battle space and across it they are waging a new kind of war against us, the war involving what extending beyond our military to include our businesses and our people. The department of defense has a Critical Role to play in this new kind of war but it cant succeed alone. To be clear we are not succeeding. We have lacked pollties in the cyber domain and we still dochlt it is because we were trying to
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi