Nuclear storage safety, and cybersecurity. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Todays over second the village of the Nuclear Regulatory commission, nrc. Id like to welcome chairman svinicki, welcome and im sad to say the Commission Remains without its full strength of five commissioners. This is the situation im eager to resolve. I continually the Commission Functions best with all five commissioners in place. Im a stock support of Nuclear Energy and it is a vital component of it all of the above approach to american energy. For a country to benefit from Nuclear Energy we need the nrc to be an effective efficient and predictable regulator. The nrc efficiency principle of good regulation states quote the american taxpayer, the rate paying consumer, and licensees are all entitled to the best possible management and administration of regulatory activities. I agree. It is our committees responsible to assess the agencies performance. The nrc Safety Missi
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Actually have very, very stringent and effective rules in that regard. For example, under one particular provision of fisa, were not allowed to target either United States persons or persons within the United States. Sometimes it happens that we think somebody is not a u. S. Person and then we discover, oh, my gosh, this person has a green card. We didnt know that before. And the rules are at that point, you have to go and purge the collection you have to report it to the fisa court. You have to purge the collection and you have to purge any downstream reporting that comes from that, as well and all of this is overseen within the government, reported to the court and also reported in summary fashion each year to congress. So it actually it actually is possible to get rules and procedures that do protect against these kind of mistakes. Supply want to thank our panel for sharing their thoughts and wisdom with us this important and thanks to the audience for your participation and i under
And active relationships between our Computer Emergency Readiness Team and certs that are being stood up all around the world by countries. The uk has just stood up a new cert. They had a couple certs before that and stood up a new one to act as a fuller counter part. But there are certs in lots of counties with which they interact on a daily basis. And that is obviously essential. These threats i mean, its most obvious in cyber but it is true across the board, you know, Mother Nature doesnt really know borders and we saw that as we contemplating the potential consequences of the aftereffects of the tsunami in japan. Terrorism clearly is a transnational crime. We have to have that international piece. The tenyear, again, the landscape changes so rapidly that it is an incredibly hard challenge to think about what we might confront. But i will tell you my sort of utopian vision for where i would like to see us heading and where i would like to see us closer to in ten years. You know, aga
Have grown through mergers and acquisitions and that have acquired companies and later find out after they have connected all their networks and systems, that that company that they acquired did not have good cyber hygiene and was riddled with problems that have now infected the entire network. Lawyers need to help with that. Auditors need to help with that. Venture capitalists. Were out talking to venture capitalists to say if youre investing in a company, youre investing in large part in that intellectual property, and if you havent done the Due Diligence to assure yourself that they have good cyber hygiene and have taken appropriate care to protect that information, you are throwing your money down a rat hole because that intellectual property is going out the back door. Attorneys in this room and your colleagues work with these folks on a daily basis. I need your help in spreading the word. The more secure any one of us becomes, the more secure all of us are. This is a this is a jo