Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committee is meeting today to exam the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary elaine duke, fbi director christopher wray, ctc director nick rasmussen, for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to insure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your service and director rasmussen, for over two decades, you have helped navigate an unprecedented landscape in combat terrorism
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
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The department of Homeland Security. Dj johnson from the fbi. Jen silk from the department of energy. Let me set the stage for you a little bit before we dive in. Over the past eight years, and someone say longer, the country has faced an alarming increase in the number of Cyber Incidents against the public and private sectors, incidents which have ranged in scale and sophistication and severity. Last week, president obama ued we are pleased to convene this group of experts to provide feedback. It is so important that we provide feedback on how best to implement this policy. It directs the department of Homeland Security in coordination with a variety of different federal agencies to submit a National Cyber Incident Response plan within 180 days. We understand that a draft plan will be ready for you in september for your comments. In the meantime, we hope that you will use todays events to talk about the plan to ask questions about it to ask questions about how the writers intend to co