Raise for the american households. You see Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of canada, the commander in chief just wrapping up meetings at the white house right now with him. The focus not just reworking nafta but building it up. A defense alliance, fair and balanced democratic congressman joe crowley of new york is the Democratic Caucus chair and met with trudeau today and well speak with congressman kevin brady live one on one from texas. The house ways and Means Committee chair, the man writing the house tax reform bill thats in this hour. Do not miss it. And north korea really ready to pull the plug on americas antiquated power grid . We talked to the former ceo of nrg, huge, huge company in that space. David crane. About why he looked at this threat years ago and took it seriously. On wall street, markets making yet another run for record highs as the fed says its divided how quickly to raise rates. Were less than an hour to the closing bell. Lets start the countdown. Liz breaki
Officials testify about protecting the Energy Sector from cybersecurity threats attacks here and abroad. Looking at ways federal Research Facilities and private concerns can help Companies Operating the electrical grid, Pipeline System and infrastructure. This hearing is an hour and 35 minutes. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize. A little later start than i had hoped. Over the years, we have conducted a number of hearings designed to examine the vulnerabilities of our nations electric grid system. This congress we held hearings focused on cybersecurity, electromagnetic pulse at both the full and subcommittee levels. We will add to that by looking at advanced and emerging cyber technologies developed in our National Labs and private sectors. These are technological improvements and sometimes breakthroughs that could be used to protect the grid as well as other future sectors from future Cyber Attacks. I have mentioned outside the committee around the c
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize. A little later start than i had hoped. Over the years, we have conducted a number of hearings designed to examine the vulnerabilities of our nations electric grid system. This congress we held hearings focused on cybersecurity, electromagnetic pulse at both the full and subcommittee levels. We will add to that by looking at advanced and emerging cyber technologies developed in our National Labs and private sectors. These are technological improvements and sometimes breakthroughs that could be used to protect the grid as well as other future sectors from future Cyber Attacks. I have mentioned outside the committee around the country, sometimes we get the sense that folks believe in this Immaculate Conception theory of energy, that it just happens. We all recognize, i think, there is a lot more to this than that. A related question is what happens what happens when the lights dont turn on . When you flip that switch a
Early in our work with cs21, now contents identified sticks to be the best format for data. New context has begun working with the community and the industry to extend sticks for the grid. Sticks is just the first step. We need the ability to share threats automatically between organizations. Several organizations have begun but we still rely on human analysts. If there was a coordinated attack on grid the analysts would not be able to respond. We need new technology to speed up response. Discovering and ensuring threat to machine is a huge step. The first hurdle in automated response is trust by third party. We need to ensure that theres trust in remediation. Once we have been able to solve the trust, utility, National Labs and agencies can distribute remediation into the grid allowing them to rapidly respond. In summary, identity, trusted data, isolated networks, response and remediation, technologies for defense. Battlefield continues to change. We need to protect find ways to prote
I ask our guests to take their seats, please. The subcommittee on energy and power will now come to order and the chair will recognize himself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all, welcome, mr. Secretary. Its great to have you here. And todays hearing is going to examine the department of energys management and Mission Priorities under the leadership of secretary rick perry. Im very pleased to welcome this morning for his first appearance before the subcommittee. It performs essential Nuclear Security and National Security missions. It plays a central role in ensuring the nations Domestic Energy security and sorting americas Strategic Interests in the international markets. It performs challenging cleanup operations to address its vast environmental and Nuclear Waste liabilities and provides key energy data and supports foundational science and Technological Development to advance the benefits of all forms of energy and Energy Delivery to ensure the longterm security