On cspan 3 committee will come to order. Today were discussing a topic. Theres Cyber Security and how to stop the bad guys. Whats not been discussed in great detail is what the consequence will be from a massive cyber attack that brings down for example a large portion of the electric for an amount of time. With the electrical power system is, what consequences should the federal government tell the state and local government to prepare for . In other words, for how many people and for how long should states plan on being without power . The federal government does not now for every significant hazard that we face. Whether its a category five hurricane hitting miami or an 8. 0 hurricane. The federal government does not have the basic planning scenario for a cyber threat in the you power system, and theres a huge disparity in different groups think and what is a potentialle scenario in what state and local government should prepare. Its significant for the local government. If the power
Committee will come to order. Today were holding a hearing to discuss a timely topic. Theres been numerous hearings on Cyber Security and how to stop the bad guys. Whats not been discussed in great detail is what the consequence will be from a massive cyber attack that brings down for example a large portion of the electrical grid for an amount of time. The purpose is to answer an important question. With respect to suber threats to the electrical power system, what consequences should the federal government tell states and local governments to prepare for . In other words, for how many people and for how long should states plan on being without power . The federal government does this now for every significant hazard that we face. Whether its a category five hurricane hitting miami or an 8. 0 earthquake in los angeles. The federal government has realist scenarios for states and cities to plan. The federal government does not have this basic planning scenario for a cyber threat to the
The electrical grid is under attack and then the power sector is all too familiar with the devastation storms like Hurricane Sandy can leave behind and the physical attacks like the 2013 incident and the sub cap station in california. 2013 incident in the substation in california. Thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the sector has strong plans in place and the systems to restore the power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. I am concerned about a cyber attack. Are there similar plans in place for the industry and for the state and local government . Will those provide the same types of protection . Most recently i have been discussing this topic with those in my district asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a long period of time. Honestly, most of them do not know because we dont know what to plan for. We have brought together the right people here to tell us today. We are also going to discuss what preparedness looks
And thats a big priority. They enter minister, you mentioned, is always been very pushy on this. We are having the french that is being set up and should be working before the end of the year, and the european, very much necessary, has been passed by European Parliament in april. So all the tools you have in the u. S. And your enforcing and you are willing to share our tools that we are enforcing and trying to enforce in many cases, indeed in europe. Its not the only reason, its not the only add to but its part of the answer. And to answer for directly the question, i dont think of these tools are outdated and not working. They provide very ethically response and add additional layer of security. Staff one followup question. One question that ive had, the department of Homeland Security now has a Peace Agreement in place with dozens of countries, the numbers increased rapidly in the last few years. The question is how those agreements are being operationalized. How quickly this informa
Action on the floor of the senate. There are a couple of groups that dont like this or dont like that. Weve been prepared and look forward to receiving your comments. The staff has received them. David granus is here today, our staff director, and jack from the Minority Side as well. And so to we are open, but we do not want to produce manager that cannot get something that cannot get a vote. What we have done is an entire voluntary system. It essentially are moves essentially moves to let companies do three things; to monitor their networks, to identify cyber indicators, to use countermeasures to protect against Cyber Threats and, third, to share and receive information with each other and with federal, state and local government. Companies who use the authorities to monitor and share information are provided full Liability Protection for doing so as long as they do so with the bill, within the bills parameters. And those parameters are pretty clearly spelled out. The bill has a numbe