Perilous time for the 2020 census. Troubling, there were reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trump about significant problems that will delay the delivery of census data to late january or early february. After these reports became public, the director of the census, dr. Steven billingham, issued a Public Statement confirming problems were found, but provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to our committee before we write about them in the press or before the census director made his Public Statement. Committee has jurisdiction, but nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about these problems or delays. For these reasons, the committee wrote a letter to the Census Bureau november 19. We asked for documents career officials prepared describing these data problems and the resulting delays. We also requested documents repaired for the department of commerce, including the commerce secretary
You have everyones bio, i dont think i need to reintroduce the panebut it is a way to look at the year in a context of cyber and healthcare and give us a different way to look at the efforts to get the vaccine to the public. Have news that we will get to later, the new rk times reported cyberattacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been gog on since august and it is unclear whether this is about ran somewhere or sothing more sinister but we will get to that in minute. What i thought we would do is divide the discussion into three parts, going to look at thbroader issue, attacks on for healthcare sector as we wrestle through a pandemic, ok at the security and protection of intellecal property related to the vaccine and finay is related to news about hacking the cold cin we will talk about Security Protection and defense of the supply chain for the vaccine. What i would like to do if you have questions i will field those as we along and we may have questions at the end as well
Im behalf of the Auburn University president and the board of trustees of our university, i i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Todays event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and vertical infrastructure security here at Auburn University. We have likely over the past few weeks used the term unprecedented more than any other time in our history. The covid19 pandemic have brought about many changes in our country, and affected virtually every aspect of our daily lives. As an institution we here at Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing their expertise towards fighting the covid19 pandemic and its impact on our health, our economy, and on our way of life. The department of Homeland Security that youre going to hear from today plays a lead role in the nations response. We are honored to have secretary wolf join us today to disc
Response to the pandemic but also pointed out Hurricane Season is approaching and the agency needs to deal with that and other disasters. He participated in an auburn virtual discussion. Good morning. On behalf of the auburn president and board of trustees i would like to welcome you to a conversation with the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. The event is brought to you by the Mccrary Institute for the cyber and Critical Infrastructure security here at Auburn University. Weekse over the past few used the term unprecedented more than any other time in history. The copan 19 pandemic has brought about many changes in our country and affected virtually every aspect of daily lives. As an institution, we had Auburn University have tried to respond quickly with our researchers and scientists directing expertise andrd fighting the pandemic its impact on our health, our economy, and our way of life. The department of Homeland Security you are going to hear fro
The center for democracy, technology and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, obviously a very, very important forming symposium. At the outset i want to thank all the participants. An incredible array of speakers, guests who have taken the time to address this subject and cspan, regardless of republican, democrat or independent think is critically important. Its undisputed that there are people that have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. The evidence is indisputable. We can start with 2016, but i think if we look back before that we might have seen there are people playing around in that arena even before that time. We decided to get together to pull together a symposium to deal with hacking in u. S. Elections and how to make the 2020 election more secure. So were grateful that they could join us this morning. Some of you in the audience probably remember, but i did happen to talk to some of my colleagues from Penn State Di