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
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
, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. 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 ent
Epidemic, and that is very inspiring to us, to see these small news organizations that are struggling because they have lost so much advertising over the past decade, and still putting resources into this story is really important. So we cheer all those people on. Ms. Casey where does this go from here . Mr. Rosen i think the story that we did will get local television stations now to say lets cover it in our area in the bigger way. Lets not just cover the car crash or local three alarm fire, lets devote resources to this. When that happens, here is how it works in washington. Those stories happen, people at home get outraged, they call their senator and congressman, the senator and congressman look at the mail and the incoming phone list, and says oh, i better do something about that. Legislation has been proposed maybe to remedy it. Law enforcement, maybe the vote is more resources in a proper way. To theely, it goes executive branch that says this is going to be a big voting issue i