multiple actors, yes. china, russia, iran? north korea, eastern europe. countless enemies launching a staggering number of attacks tracked here in the nsa s cybercommand center. how many cyberattacks do you see a day here? if you had to quantify, hundreds of thousands. and it gets worse, cyberattacks happening at lightning speed. so the nsa has to put up defenses just as fast. the fastest we ve ever done that is ten minutes from start to finish. got the threat, put the defense up. ten minutes? ten minutes. incredible. the cyberintruders are getting faster, smarter. china, suspected in the largest theft of u.s. government personal information. russia, believed to be behind the hacking of white house e-mail. and now terrorists such as isis and al qaeda have learned how to disappear from u.s. electronic surveillance completely. is it true that terrorists or adversaries can go completely dark? absolutely. there is part of the world that s dark to us.
cybercommand center. how many cyberattacks do you see a day here? if you had to quantify, hundreds of thousands. and it gets worse, cyberattacks happening at lightning speed. so the nsa has to put up defenses just as fast. the fastest we ve ever done that is ten minutes from start to finish. got the threat, put the defense up. ten minutes? ten minutes. incredible. the cyberintruders are getting faster, smarter. china, suspected in the largest theft of u.s. government personal information. russia, believed to be behind the hacking of white house e-mail. and now terrorists such as isis and al qaeda have learned how to disappear from u.s. electronic surveillance completely. is it true that terrorists or adversaries can go completely dark? absolutely. there is part of the world that s dark to us. in other words, we can t see. the term to go dark is what
u.s. infrastructure? absolutely. a cyberattack? yes. special power, natural gas distribution, transportation networks, air traffic control system, financial sector, all of those things. you ve just shut down the u.s. yeah. basically, yeah. every day he s fighting a war that is constantly shifting against increasingly familiar adversaries. we are in a battle, if not an actual war, in cyberspace and i want folks to understand and appreciate that. with multiple actors? yes. china, russia, iran? north korea, eastern europe. countless enemies launching a staggering number of attacks, tracked here in the nsa s cybercommand center. how many cyberattacks do you
staggering number of attacks, tracked here in the nsa s cybercommand center. how many cyberattacks do you see a day here? if you had to quantify. if you had to quantify, hundreds and thousands. and it gets worse. cyberattacks happening at lightning speed so the nas has to put up defenses just as fast. the fastest we ve ever done that is ten minutes from start to finish, got the threat and put the defense up. ten minutes? ten minutes. incredible. the cyberintruders are getting faster, smarter. china suspected in the largest theft of u.s. personal information. russia believed to be behind the hacking of whouz e-mail. and now terrorists such as al qaeda and isis have learned how to disappear from u.s. electronic surveillance completely. is it true that terrorists or add ver sar rees can go
people may not know this but there are 16 intelligent agencies out there. you know about the cia, you know about the nsa, but there are many others that are part of this team, in effect. you have the nro, national reconnaissance operation, that runs the spy satellite, the nga that analyzes the spy satellite data. so many. and every day they re fighting these kinds of threats. there are many threats out there. this is one takeaway they talk about specifically cyber threats. but, you know, things that we saw play out in the streets of paris were important as well. we re coming up for the last several months one big warning they always make is that these guys are going dark. they re using simple tools that make them virtually invisible to surveillance. here s a brief clip of the special. i think you get a real sense here. reporter: countless enemies launching a staggering number of attacks, tracked here in the nsa s cyber command center. how many cyber attacks do you see a day here?