Good afternoon and welcome to the 10th annual Cyber Security summit. My name is Tom Billington. Its ab honor and privilege to convene this forum for a tenth year to address our high purpose and theme a call to action for the siCyber Security community. As you look around in the audience here and throughout the exhibit hall are some of the most Innovative Companies and organizations in the world. Facing some of the toughest adversaries. We thank you for your dedication to the mission. My wonderful wife and i founded Cyber Security ten years ago. Besides this annual summit, we host the leadership council, a Member Service and aim for dialogue about Cyber Security in our nations capital. Thats filming the event today, this conference is on the record unless specified and unclassified. And we welcome those members of the media today. You can follow us on twitter at billingtoncyber. As youll see from the Conference Program in your conference materials, we have a packed day and a a half ahea
Around, both in the audience here and throughout the exhibit hall, are some of the most Innovative Cybersecurity Companies and organizations in the world facing some of the toughest adversaries. We thank you for your dedication to this mission. My wonderful wife, susan, founded billington cybersecurity nearly ten years ago. Besides this annual summit we host the leadership council, a membership council. We aim to be top experts in the serious and deep dialogue about cybersecurity in our nations capital. I deeply thank the superb speakers who will share their insights. Please lets give them a round of applause. [ applause ] for the media, including cspan thats filming the event today, this conference is on the record unless specified and unclassified. And we welcome those members of the media today. You can follow us on twitter at billington cyber. And use billingt billingtonsum. We have a packed day and a half ahead. It has been expanded by a half day this year. Q a will be available f
This is a house Energy Sub Committee hearing. Its about 2 15. Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to my great friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and ferc and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and a reliable grid is also crucial to our National Secu
Test test test test test test test. This is a test. This is a captioning test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test they do break down a little bit in cyber in terms of going out and labeling objects for full motion video, there are no objects on the ground. We have it and we have people, buildings, we work our way down from there. Cyber a little bit difficult problem to deal with. What is the baseline . If we take the baseline behavior, i have to know what baseline is, its a appreciative maintenance or humanitarian assistance astro relief case. So if i go back to starting with a data problem on cyber, its the most basic problems that everybody begins with, data access, data quality, data content, data classification and data standards. What we have to do is reset a little bit. Our challenge without getting into the Technical Details is we have 24 Cyber Security providers all of whom are collec
Good morning, mr. Chairman. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. An incredibly issue an incredibly important issue we need to care about and make a policy on. Your meeting to discuss the state of cybersecurity and the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. And glad to see the doe firm and others taking steps. Our energy grid serves as the backbone to our economy, Touching Every aspect are our lives every aspect of our lives. Reliable grid is crucial to the National Security and a clean energy future. For lawmakers to enable innovative advancements that we can improve the security and reliability of our electric grid, we must work on a bipartisan basis. And, actively engage with leaders as we are doing today. The modernization and innovation of our Energy Infrastructure is already underway. What was once a oneway Delivery System has evolved to a Dynamic Networ