Good afternoon. All here today to a hearing entitled acting americans from covid19 scams protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the Health Crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In addition to the threat this pandemic poses to americans, the Economic Impact resulting from responsible Public Health protocols have been felt in every corner of the country. It has become clear that preventing practices and dedicated resources including expanding testing capability and the availability of personal protective equipment are absolute necessities to a responsible path forward in extinguishing this Health Crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and coordinated recovery, there are scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the nations most vulnerable communities, like that of our nations seniors. Networks Consumer Reports consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams totaling appro
Captioning performed by vitac through our cloudbased shared service platform, its a fed ramped cloud where we get the sensors out for those small and micro agencies and feed that data rather than into individual dashboards at their sites, feed it up into a fed ramped cloud where each agency has their multitenant dashboard. Thats been a great accomplishment for the program in terms of for the first time were getting near realtime visibility of those smaller micro agencies and helping them get the capabilities they need to protect their Critical Mission systems. One of the early wins for the program, once we were getting automated discovery capabilities out to the network, we were able to see on average across the federal government that there were 75 more assets than what were being reported up manually. So from that measurement we want to continue to build on that. Now we have all of this vulnerability information feeding up to the Agency Dashboard summarized up to the federal dashboar
Welcome back from the break. Thank you to amazon and web services for hosting our break at the sponsor. Thank you. Now were going to be talking about zero trust, a topic near and dear to some of our hearts, for those of you that havent been to the dream port, you should go over there and talk to them about their zero trust efforts as well. First of all, id like to introduce our moderator, mr. Tom temmon, he is the anchor of the federal drive from federal news network. Thank you, tom, for moderating the panels. His panelists are rick howard the chief Security Officer from palo alto networks. Sylvia burns, the deputy chief Information Officer for enterprise strategy, fidc. And michael friedrick. Over to you, tom. If you have a streaming device you can hear my voice on the radio now through the magic of streaming technology. Our topic today and its really great to be in such a nice intimate setting here with listeners that are close by, we are going to talk about something that in many wa
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And mark. Were here on the border oversee. We would like to be inside, but that has been impossible. Over the last 12 months since the military coup her, the board is, have been very tight. Although here we have seen over the course of the last couple of weeks, tens of thousands of people flooding across from me and my trying to escape fierce fighting earth that has been taking place. Now that has come down in the last week or so. And the ties have certainly not being keen to welcome people, those who have come across had been urged to go back once. The fighting in the immediate area has settled down, though you are secretary of state will continue talks with russia as foreign minister and later about the crisis in ukraine. Though Un Security Council has met to discuss the issue, russia and the u. S. Have blamed each other for escalating tension. The u. S. Is designated cuts are a major non nato ally. This follows a meeting between president joe biden, casara, amir, a shift. I mean, be