And defcon. Our guest report from the Washington Post is joseph marx. Mr. Moss, remind us again what is black hat and defcon, and w did they come about . Well, so defcon is a largest conference in the world hacking conference at will, about 30,000 attended in las vegas, precovid and a black hat is one of the largest security covers also held in las vegas. One is the university and one is more like a party. One is focused on your professional Career Advancement and the other one is eating the soul of hackers and aspiring. Host when did you found these . Guest defcon is pretty old. It was about 1993, at and about three or four years later black hat started, 1997 i believe. The secret was we did no advertising or marketing of the just group organically. Host what is your background that you are able to do this . Guest well, originally i thought i was going to be an fbi agent. Instead i turn into a hacker, and it was a hobby like everything hobby that turned into a career. I started throwi
Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense
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About election security. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Donors. Unding from entitledote an article friendly fire, the number one threat to American Election security. Tell us what you mean by friendly fire. Most of the focus has been people outside of the u. S. Trying to interact with our elections. But one thing i realized we were not talking about was that cybersecurity focuses on both offense and defense. We have not been talking about the threat that comes from not having appropriate training for our own security and poll workers. Dowhat type of training election workers get and what type should they get when it comes to cybersecurity . Thats a great question. Unfortunately, there is no uniform standard for training so it really depends across your state or even local county. This can wildly vary depending on where you are located. Most are trained by local election officers. This training can vary all over the place, because of the shift to protectl need against cyb
Institute is and where you get your money. We are nonprofit, nonpartisan, get our funding from a variety of foundations and other donors, but we are all independent. We are all independence and if you wrote an article titled friendly fire the number one threat to american elections and cybersecurity. Most of the focus after 2016 has been on people outside the u. S. Trying to get into the system. System. When i was writing the piece, i realized we were talking about security on offense and defense. We have been talking about the russians but not about not having appropriate training for our own Election Security workers and poll workers. Of training do election and poll workers get and what should they get when it comes to cybersecurity . Host unfortunately, poll workers and election workers, there is no uniform standard for training. It depends across your state and local counties as to what sort of training you are receiving. This can vary widely depending on where you are located. Mo