looking at that supply chain on a daily basis monitoring those attacks and many times we re focused on doing the things that these large cybersecurity vendors have told us to do relative to their products. so they told us here s a vulnerability gilpatric. here s some intelligence and many of these large companies are very good at actively sharing their intelligence information with the ecosystem that is trying to help protect the supply chain. so we re plugged in to all those different ecosystems and threat information sharing channels and then pushing that out to our customers. yeah, eric, it s great to have you on as always. thank you so much, sir. we appreciate your time. thank you . jonathan, to you. stay safe, my friend. again, terrific work out there and i know you are right there on the front line. please stay safe. we started this broadcast off three hours ago with an air alert in ukraine. people were told to shelter that alert. jonathan was lifted and now
clothes there a little bit more . but we shook our favorite pictures of our family. you would you want us to go and we just had to leave forever. last night olga, her family and friends slept on the floor of a church. tomorrow they continue driving. they don t know what their ultimate destination will be in lviv, ukraine. lucas tomlinson fox news. amazing. lucas , thank you . meantime, chinese hackers launching attacks on european officials in the russia, ukraine war . let s bring in cyber fauci ceo eric noonan now along with my co-anchor jonathan hunt on the ground for us in the veev. and eric, you believe that we are weeks behind these hackers and they are already in the later stages of the attack. can you explain that for us if you can? well, chris , as we mentioned previously when we saw these these discover attack and when they re publicly acknowledged,
defense contractors to the pentagon and effectively said stop the bleeding, we re under attack. so it s really 15 years in the making and that was really the start of the largest public private partnership between the department of defense and their federal contractors. and so i think the reason we are so far behind despite the great progress, it s just lack of enforcement. these vulnerabilities often known vulnerabilities. we know what to do but we need the impetus of enforcement to really force a federally mandated standard around cybersecurity. you say, eric, that lack of enforcement, but really what you re saying is that we need to play better defense. and i guess the question would be how is it how do we go about playing better defense so that we don t get behind the eight ball on these cyberattacks? we know what to do. we know we need to patch our systems. we know we need encryption. we know we need multifactor authentication. so you know, i make the analogy sometimes about, you
that means it s a lagging indicator. we re already probably weeks or in this case months behind in this particular case, it s believed that it was a known vulnerability that has been unpaid for some time that was actually exploited in any of these cases. so by the time it publicly disclosed, it s like coming to the crime scene and trying to put things together after the fact. yeah, my colleague has a question for you as well. yeah, eric, i m interested. it seems to me that we have been warning about cyberattacks for so many years. we had a u.s. government official in fact, a couple of years ago say the next pearl harbor will be a cyber attack. why do we always seem to be behind these russian hackers? are they that much more clever at this than we are? jonathan, it s an excellent question. and really when you when you really pull the camera back and look the past 15 years it was 15 years ago almost no. and it was deputy secretary of defense gordon england who called some of the top tier
the aviation industry where we have regulations, where there s safety and security concerns, we need those mandatory minimums for cyber security to to really compel private businesses to take these actions. eric noonan, the ceo of cyber , she thank you , eric. really great to get your insights on what is a new front in international conflicts. thank you very much indeed. eric noonan, kevin johnson, thank you . u.s. troop strength in europe is now over 100,000, the largest number in nearly two decades. and that number. believe it or not, could actually be growing. a senior defense department official saying tuesday that defense secretary lloyd austin is not ruling out the deployment of more troops to eastern europe. and nato is said to be looking at beefing up troop strength there as well. joining us now is chris caselli ,lieutenant colonel and now a republican republican that is