The Lincoln Network hosted the Virtual Event to look at Lessons Learned from the primary season and issues regarding absentee and mailin voteing ballots and security measures needed for the november elections. My name is dan lips and im the director of national and Cyber Security at the Lincoln Network. Welcome to our webinar. Protect 2020, securing the election ahead of thank you for november. Taking time out of your day to join us. At the Lincoln Network, our mission is to connect the technology and policy communities to make the future happen sooner to build a better tomorrow. To advance this mission, our Cyber National Security Team works to inform National Policy discussions. And in Silicon Valley another tech pubs to develop tech cups. 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face, is all the National Challenge or elections during the covid19 pandemic. Today we are honored to host leading experts from the National Intergovernmental communities that administers our nations
On the director at the Lincoln Network. Project 2020 and procuring the election ahead of november. Thank you for taking time out of your day. The Lincoln Network, we connected technology and communities to make the future happen sooner to build a better tomorrow. To advance this mission, our Cyber National Security Team works to inform National Policy discussions. And in Silicon Valley another tech pubs to develop tech cups. 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face, is all the National Challenge or elections during the covid19 pandemic. Today we are honored to host leading experts from the National Intergovernmental communities that administers our nations elections and protects state and local governments informations. First we will hear a presentation from jeff perry health for the director at the department of Homeland Security. His presentation will be followed by discussion by including questions from the audience and we will be using the chat function here and zoom to
Key National Challenges. In 2020, one of the Biggest National challenges we face is to hold the National Challenge National Selection during the covid19 pandemic. Today, we are honored to host leading experts from the national and intergovernmental community that protects state and local government Information Systems. First, well hear from jeffrey hale, the director of the Election Security initiative at the department of Homeland Security. He will be followed by a discussion including questions from the audience. Please feel free to use the chat function here on zoom to ask questions. After that, the second half of our program will feature a discussion with representatives of associations of discussions on leaders. Lindsay forson, with National Association of secretaries of state. And Maggie Brunner, a director for Homeland Security at the National Governors association. First, its really terrific to have an opportunity to hear from jeffrey and the department of Homeland Security. Si
Meant. Popular the time dhs is present and they see the infrastructure and this purity is really a supporting function helping to provide information and overbuild man purses to help those stakeholders manage risk to theirs systems. To do so we tried to have an information with the information sharing and analysis and was stood up in 2018 and since that time has two of the states it has more than 2500 local addictions deployed intrusion Protection Centers for helping to understand what type of traffic is targeting election infrastructure across the states. It has really been a rapid evolution of the information of the communal defense in this sector. We have been able to take some of the best practices learned with doing this type of support for other structures and apply it to our support with election infrastructure. Thats a little different we talk about the seventh and of effort supporting partisan efforts with campaigns and Party Committees which we have the same Vulnerability Man
Very under reported fact that since january 1st 2020 the United States government through the pentagons Africa Command has been conducting a brutal barrage of air strikes inside the battered nation just security dot com reports that in the 1st few months of 2020 the u. S. Has already conducted at least 39 air strikes in somalia to put that in perspective africa carried out 63. 00 airstrikes during the entirety of 2019. In fact nick turse the fantastic journalist who has consistently been a thorn in africa side he points out that u. S. Africa command has conducted more air strikes in somalia than it did during all of Barack Obamas 8 years in office. Yes my friends it appears that while the world has been targeting covert 19 the Us Government has decided to target small ians remember back in early gave. When the United Nations secretary general and tonio good better stick led to the world that quote there should be only one fight in our world today our shared battle against kobe 19 we mu