Any background noise . Member, please mute their microphone. Going through documents and records please, email documents, im going to abbreviate my opening statement. I will put the full statement in the record given the fact that you probably cant hear me and understand me and im having trouble, you know, this is the second hearing, last hearing was in industries takeholders and we heard a distressing and serious gaps, shortages of several personnel, lack of even the most basic hygiene practices and a consensus among our witnesses that federal government needed to help the private sector which owns and operates 85 of the patients Critical Infrastructure to defend itself and respond to attacks. You know, the bill 3684 will provide funding at the local, state and federal level to enhance response to Cyber Security incidents. It improves the national highway system, other Transportation Systems, capabilities and established office of National Cyber directive to the principle advisory on
I am very, very happy to have senator warner here with us. Mool here note senator warners background the governor of virginia and senator hirono in virgini and as the chair of the Senate Select committee on intelligenc stexperts up on the hill in this space certainly from a nationalt relates to cyber. It is such an Important Role that he has. Iv have had the pleasure of chatting with him previously on a number of these issues. Having been in front over the years. So, welcome. Ksh a lot of your constituents here . Whats the most important question how we live in virginia . Those of you who dont, why [laughter] im a little intimidate most crowds i go to i can pull off being the fiber guy. This is not the crowd i could pull off being the cyber guy but im looking forward to the conversations. Its so take. Weve got a lot of folks from the executive branch of her a lot from the Defense Industrial base theyve been involved in the space for such a long time. They certainly understand the risk.
Washington, d. C. ■ intelligence, really one of the foremost experts i think up on the hill in the space consorted from a National Security perspective for specific as a this relates to cyber. It is an Important Role that he has. I have had the pleasure of chatting with hi■bm previously n a number of these issues, having been in front of the committee over no, im a little intimidated. In those crowds i can go to, i cane■2 pull off being the cyber guy. This is not the crowd i could pull off necessarily being the cyber guy but am looking forward to the conversation. I think its important to get your take. We got a lot of folks are from the executive branch, a lot of folks from the defense and social base. Een involved this space for such a long time. They certainly understand the risk but but a big believere holistic responsedes them having the authorities that legislative branch is able to provide. So having herus perspective i think its really, really important. I guess so far, c
Should i start over . I think i will. Its a pleasure to seek people here again break the last panel we had was primarily the kinds of vulnerabilities and risks for providers the providers are experiencing. This subsequent panel health, how can to mitigate and reduce the chance systems and services can be hacked or otherwise made less available for people who need them. We are going to talk about how to apply frameworks, Cybersecurity Framework. Platforms available we will talk about the kinds of issues or problems different segments of the industry confront when dealing with these problems so segments like different provider segment, different user segments like Public Safety and different segments such as small and mediumsized businesses which are providers that came up in the last panel so those are the things we will be talking about that more on the perspective how as opposed to what they let me introduce our panel to have catherine from mti a. Catherine medications policy speciali
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