Guest this this is a truly harrowing unprecedented event that requires extraordinary collective action, though in the running of your own operations and adequately serve the consumers that youre committed to. First and foremost it has affected our company just like all companies. It has to protect its own employees, particularly for a set of companies that one large call centers with large collections of people, that since technicians into peoples homes to repair and provision service, all of those processes had to be rapidly transformed. Now we have 90 of call centers employees working at home. Most companies have accelerated self install plants so they can avoid sending technicians to the home. These are changes that are probably five to seven years worth of work accelerate into three months. Obviously the country did something unheard of. It locked down the nation, essentially ordered people to stay home to one of the reasons they could safely assume that was an Effective Response t
About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
Meant. Popular the time dhs is present and they see the infrastructure and this purity is really a supporting function helping to provide information and overbuild man purses to help those stakeholders manage risk to theirs systems. To do so we tried to have an information with the information sharing and analysis and was stood up in 2018 and since that time has two of the states it has more than 2500 local addictions deployed intrusion Protection Centers for helping to understand what type of traffic is targeting election infrastructure across the states. It has really been a rapid evolution of the information of the communal defense in this sector. We have been able to take some of the best practices learned with doing this type of support for other structures and apply it to our support with election infrastructure. Thats a little different we talk about the seventh and of effort supporting partisan efforts with campaigns and Party Committees which we have the same Vulnerability Man
Listen to richard haas the prolific author and academically came out with another book entitled the world. A brief history and 300 pages its departure but i want to start because only after you turned and manuscript the world was confronted by the covidien pandemic and since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts that you tackle in the book. I just want to ask you out right what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Thank you for doing this also thank you to everyone on this call we hope everybody is well and safe as we get through this one day at a time its like groundhog day. With the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is obvious were member of the council on Foreign Relations the world matters and what happens around the world doesnt stay there now its a small city in china where the virus broke out spread through china and then to the United States and elsewhere around the world, 9 11 it was
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