The Lincoln Network hosted the Virtual Event to look at Lessons Learned from the primary season and issues regarding absentee and mailin voteing ballots and security measures needed for the november elections. My name is dan lips and im the director of national and Cyber Security at the Lincoln Network. Welcome to our webinar. Protect 2020, securing the election ahead of thank you for november. Taking time out of your day to join us. At the Lincoln Network, our mission is to connect the technology and policy communities to make the future happen sooner to build a better tomorrow. To advance this mission, our Cyber National Security Team works to inform National Policy discussions. And in Silicon Valley another tech pubs to develop tech cups. 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face, is all the National Challenge or elections during the covid19 pandemic. Today we are honored to host leading experts from the National Intergovernmental communities that administers our nations
On the director at the Lincoln Network. Project 2020 and procuring the election ahead of november. Thank you for taking time out of your day. The Lincoln Network, we connected technology and communities to make the future happen sooner to build a better tomorrow. To advance this mission, our Cyber National Security Team works to inform National Policy discussions. And in Silicon Valley another tech pubs to develop tech cups. 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face, is all the National Challenge or elections during the covid19 pandemic. Today we are honored to host leading experts from the National Intergovernmental communities that administers our nations elections and protects state and local governments informations. First we will hear a presentation from jeff perry health for the director at the department of Homeland Security. His presentation will be followed by discussion by including questions from the audience and we will be using the chat function here and zoom to
Meant. Popular the time dhs is present and they see the infrastructure and this purity is really a supporting function helping to provide information and overbuild man purses to help those stakeholders manage risk to theirs systems. To do so we tried to have an information with the information sharing and analysis and was stood up in 2018 and since that time has two of the states it has more than 2500 local addictions deployed intrusion Protection Centers for helping to understand what type of traffic is targeting election infrastructure across the states. It has really been a rapid evolution of the information of the communal defense in this sector. We have been able to take some of the best practices learned with doing this type of support for other structures and apply it to our support with election infrastructure. Thats a little different we talk about the seventh and of effort supporting partisan efforts with campaigns and Party Committees which we have the same Vulnerability Man
Day after day the u. S. Continues to set new daily records for coronavirus cases. Yesterday nearly a quarter Million People were diagnosed with covid19. Just yesterday. More help is on the way with this second vaccine. The moderna drug could reach Health Care Workers as early as monday. Between pfizer and moderna, nearly 8 million doses will be distributed nationwide this week. This morning operation warp speeds chief operating officer general gus perna said hes confident that 20 million vaccines will be allocated this year. So whats the difference between the two drugs . Well, both the pfizer and the Moderna Vaccines are proven to be more than 94 effective regardless of race or gender or Underlying Health conditions. Both have shown only mild and temporary side effects. The big differences are storage and timeline. Modernas vaccine can be kept in a conventional freezer at minus 4 degrees. Pfizers needs a special freezer set at minus 94 degrees. Both vaccines require a second dose, but
Distributed nationwide this week. This morning operation warp speeds chief operating officer general gus perna said hes confident that 20 million vaccines will be allocated this year. So whats the difference between the two drugs . Well, both the pfizer and the Moderna Vaccines are proven to be more than 94 effective regardless of race or gender or Underlying Health conditions. Both have shown only mild and temporary side effects. The big differences are storage and timeline. Modernas vaccine can be kept in a conventional freezer at minus 4 degrees. Pfizers needs a special freezer set at minus 94 degrees. Both vaccines require a second dose, but modernas come four weeks apart. Pfizers come three weeks apart. We will look at the production of these vaccines and see who could get the first doses. Meanwhile, the uk has already started vaccinations, but thats not canceling other precautions. Millions of people in london and most of englands southeast are being forced to cancel their christ