President obama will unveil an executive order on immigration policy tomorrow night offering temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants. The measure could provide permits for up to 5 million people. You will have live coverage at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan. A house panel looks at the technical and Security Problems with the healthcare. Gov website. We will hear from the chief Technology Officer todd park korea congressman paul brown shares the subCommittee Hearing. This hearing on the committee will come to quarter. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing. In front of you are packets containing the testimony, biography and the truth and testimony disclosure for todays witness. I recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. I want to thank my colleagues for being here today and i want to especially thank the witness for his presence. Weve been waiting a very long time to be a
What we are saying is that the problem is getting worse. The problem is getting worse in part because of the scope of the attacks has gotten enormous. Companies are experiencing intrusions where 100, 200, 300, 500 servers are being compromised possibly for a small attack or possibly a large attack in terms of the amount of information taken out of the network but the scope of the machines affected is so enormous that the cost is rising into the five, 10, 20 milliondollar range just in terms of hard costs and then there can be costs that run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. So from a Corporate Governance perspective its very hard for companies in advance to prepare themselves for that level of attack. Id love to talk about as we go on a conversation about what that means for a Small Company if you are headed that way and those kinds of costs. Fill up what right now in your mind currently is the biggest problem or issue when it comes to corporate security . The biggest problem w
Phones we are caring around. It is an criticized by attorney general holder and the head of the fbi. How much did what apple and google, what they are saying they are going to do, how much did that hurt some of the work you did . Was a going too far between the balance of security and mike, you start. We want to be respectable people jobs. Move to protect privacy of individuals and mobile. Isis we give up so much information. They want to get into our content, look at information. Justiceur department of is having discussions with specific organizations. Or havee subpoena search warrants for this information . That s changed a little bit in the recent past but i am not sure where those discussions are. We look to work for the companys and how we can get the information we can gather in a National Security type of information in one of the means do that . It is back to the basic question of what is available . What are you capturing that we could get . We run into this problem before in
Remarkable, a coming together of all of these federal agencies working seamlessly together. To give you an example, when we have the denial of service attacks that were hitting our financial institutions, we were was working to these were bot nets. The fbi was reaching out to their counterparts. There is a lot of noise out there. What we did, and this is unique. To state department decided do. I was thought it was a bad thing. You can have a positive, where you say i need your help on something, i want you to elevate this. For about 20 countries, we said, this is serious. We want your help. We want to build a cooperative framework to deal with these threats. That has been part of our mission, working with the other agencies. More and more countries are taking this seriously. Is not just a technical issue. That is another transformation. , you would to go in person, youlk to a are the tech, you deal with it. Now, people understand it is a National Security issue. Human rights issue, for
Minority on this committee defending administration when it failed to deliver relevant documents and object to they find themselves objecting to hearings, witness request and constantly engaged in petty downplaying of what, in fact, are serious problems. The minority today will undoubtedly point out this must be political, that were not here because only 1100 people at a time could get onto a website before it crashed effectively, when 250,000 needed to get on it when it was a law and mandated. Were not here for that reason, they will say, were here because this is political. This committee on a bipartisan basis has offered legislation that if the senate had taken it up and the president had supported and signed it, and it had been implemented in this project, undoubtedly many of the mistakes made we would find would not be made. In fact the lack of Budget Authority for a single point on a project of this sort conducted and overseen by somebody who had a Success Story in similar operat