The House Homeland Security subcommittee on Cyber Security held a hearing with officials from the Homeland Security department and the Energy Department regarding the federal governments Cyber Security programs. The subcommittee looked into the security of election systems, the governments i. T. Systems, and the security of the nations electric grid. The committee on Homeland Securitys subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all, im sure i speak for all of us here on the dais in expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events liking the one yesterday demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and evil and hopefully will give us all a renewed senses of purpose as we approach the tasks of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of homeland securities Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself fo
Basically make their devices more secure. And we do that by looking at a couple Different Things on the device side, systems side and do hardware and Software Engineering to help them to that. Host theres quite a bit of competition in this field today, isnt there . Guest yep, yep. Youve kind of got to carve out a niche for yourself. Specifically, i work with a lot of crypt graphic devices host which is what . Guest these are devices that need to use cryptography typically to embed some sort of secret in the device. And if everyone uses it every day, maybe without realizing it, and this is the equivalent thing but on a device level. Host do you work with the federal government at all . Guest short answer is, no. I was in the navy for ten years, went to the naval academy. A lot of my background and training is with military and navy, but currently i just work in the commercial sector. Host why did you get into this field . Guest is it started, i think, at the naval academy. I did, was on
Advocate on an adolescent board, and families say to me if they have their help earlier they would not have been in that position, they would not be in hospital. We will hear from would not be in hospital. We will hearfrom some would not be in hospital. We will hear from some people about their experiences of accessing Mental Health services at 9. 15. The wait isnt quite over as the files about the assassination of american president John F Kennedy are released. Donald trump delays some of the more sensitive case notes after requests from the cia and fbi. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. Have you had any experiences, good or bad, trying to access Mental Health care for children and young people . We are talking about that and also later in the show we are going to talk about the rules around sharing details of crimes people committed when they were children and how they should or should not be shared around with prospective employers. Do get in touch on
For a living . Guest well, i run all of lsus Cyber Research and their applied research portfolio. Host and what does that entail . Guest for the most part, we do work for a variety of clients and helping them protect their networks from cyber vulnerabilities or cyber attack. We do a lot of risk assessment, we do vulnerability and Penetration Testing for clients, and more and more now were actually working with the Insurance Companies to go out and actually see who dun it, what the extent of the damage, how pervasive was the attack, were the mitigation strategies effective to get rid of the attack, and what details were actually compromised. Host why Louisiana State . Why does Louisiana State have a Cyber Research department . Guest well, you may or may not be familiar with the Cyber Innovation Center up in northern louisiana which was state of the art back in the day when it was built. So we have a presence there. I would argue its probably not as a mature as id like to see it, but its
Disorient attackers by shutting off lighting or sounding alarms and pilots can depressurize the cabin and knock out the attackers due to the heart rate. It could save the lives of others on the ground. You can assign air marshals in airports to find terrorists and bombs before they go up in the sky. Hiring thousands of flying air marshals after 9 11 was a natural reaction, but it should have been a temporary detail and not a career. Not very many young and ambition people yearn for a career in the airline seat. They said half the job would be flying and the rest would be time to recover and investigating. 14 years later, air marshals tell me there are still not ground opportunities. We should train federal and local Law Enforcement officers to quickly deploy as a reserve air marshals in order to respond to specific threats. Finally all federal employees are reluctant to report money wasted in dangerous security lapses because they do not want to gamble with their careers, and the tiny