Welcome, matt, thank you for appearing here. Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. We get through the weekend and before it was called for biden, it was the day before when politico dropped a piece about a Government Agency that you have never heard of that is countering the president s lawyers claims about impropriety and fraud. That night, i saw at first. I saw it first. I
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
The Threat Landscape is diverse, the best practices are changing, the information you get may not always be reliable. The task can seem overwhelming and the stakes are high. In this context, i have found myself thinking effective cybersecurity cannot move at, quote, the speed of government. By that i mean cybersecurity is a 21st century Public Policy program just not manageable by 20th century government means. Regulations, mandates and centralized action in general, these approaches are inadequate to match the pace of change. Congress needs to make sure that the governments role in detecting and responding to cyberattacks is clearly defined, that theyre focused first and foremost on the security of federal information networks. Today well hear from the department of Homeland Security and their cybersecurity work. How it is evolving about their approach to this complex range of threats. With respect to individual actors and industries that are at their greatest risk of cyberattack, hea
Interview of the new acting director of cisa, the department of Homeland Securitys key cyberofficial branden wells. Ill be back at the end of the day for the summits final session, a covering with three of the top Cyber Security voices on capitol hill. Senator mark warner, representative will hurd and representative lauren underwood. Pie would also strongly encourage you today, take a look at our new report released yesterday by the aspen Cyber Security group that laid out a National Cyber agenda for the Biden Administration and the 117th congress. It outlines actionable steps, the art of the possible, as we call it in the cybergroup. And help build a more secure foundation for the internet and our digital economy. A full report is available at aspenvi aspencybersummit. Org. And many of the key voices that went into writing that report youve heard from at the summit already and today. Im pleased to introduce my friend from npr who will be speaking with fbi Deputy Assistant director tan
And that they might have actually changed the outcome of the election. That would be a regretful conclusion to reach in many months so it would be good cspan3 is live with the acting director of Cyber Security, brandon wales. And i want to thank intel and proof point for making this weeks summit possible and helping organize these conversations and let us talk with a great and diverse set of speakers today, along with acknowledging blue vector, cigma and the American Gas Association for their additional support. Im here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope is going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of Cyber Security and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the