Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Target ebay jpmorganchase sony pictures. Those are just some of the companies attacked by hackers last year. In fact 2014 was the worst year on record for cyberattacks. Thieves stole personal information on millions of people. And in the case of sony at least leaked damaging documents and copies of films. During his state of the Union Address next week president obama will lay out plans to protect americans from cyberattacks. Proposals he previewed on monday. Were introducing new legislation to create a single Strong National standard. So americans know when their information has been stolen or misused. And the white house has planned a cybersecurity summit at stanford next month. Bay area researchers and companies are at the forefront of efforts to combat hacking attacks. Joining us to discuss these efforts, tom pageler, chief Security Officer for docusign a company that allows businesses to sign and send documents securely. Kurt
Than 30 years. Good evening, im ken wayne and hello, im heather holmes. An alarming trend along the east bay shoreline. More than 60 sea birds have turned up, covered in a mysterious gunk the unknown substance can damage the birds ability to remain water proof, which can lead to hypothermia. So far, dozens have died. Those that have survived are at a center. Noelle walker is live, there. Reporter they have no idea what is going on. But i can tell you in the last five minutes, more birds were brought . Here to alameda. The directors gut feeling is that this is a man made substance that looks similar to rubber cement. Its not oil, but its a lot harder to clean than oil. At bird rescue in fairfield looking for injuries trying to minimize the pain. Reporter no day of rest. Water birds are being examined. Attitude is bright alert and responsive. So well put a label on him. Reporter and tagged for admission to a masked unit. This is a room that is not really used unless we are activated for
Operational manual and this will have to be conducted periodically and we need to check with the department to make sure all the information in the portal is correct. We need to do a content management and we are already getting feedback from some of our early users and updating forms and information and some of the feeds as they increase. Technical maintenance and security maintenance. Part of the next phase which has already begun in a parallel process is mapping out the five consolidated billing departments. We want to do is having the portal as a great first step into getting information into one place, but eventually if there is a way where people can log in and manage their account, they can pay bills and look at delinquency and pay for everything they need to do online. That is the pie in the sky. I dont know if that will happen anytime soon but its something we are working on and to get to that step, is looking at the process. There is so many things about the physical process
It really takes a village. Its not just myself. The team you see here, all flt Small Business leaders and some of them actually spoke earlier and all of you guys, we couldnt have done it without you. Thank you so much for your unwavering support. Congratulations. This is fantastic. I know start up Technical Companies take a lot longer. The fact that you did it inside of government is even more remarkable. I think it looks very modern and very up to date and i love the fearful it and looks like some of the best websites. It does look like its going to be very easy to navigate and something that is going to be frankly just a great way of off loading some of the work thats being done in person today because i think its very self service oriented. Its not perfect and still not done, there is still so much more work that needs to be done. I would like to say this is fantastic. I cant wait for this to be launched. As i open another business, i will wait for this. It makes you want to start a
Legislation and in your opinion, what is that going to require to do that . Thats a great question, commissioner. Right now its myself and my team of two. So the three of us have committed to at least for the next two 2 years weve set up a whole document where we are tracking every single piece of information on the portal and if it is required that we update it or check it every quarter we will mark that off and put oh n a date. We will go through a meticulous process to make sure this stays current, but it is something that needs to be kept up over the years which is why we are also creating a user manual and training so we can hand it off some day if we are not doing this anymore. But its going to take a lot of work and just maintaining the content on the portal itself and not even growing it is already a huge piece, but if we would like to grow it and again if we could advocate for more funding Going Forward thats definitely that will help keep this relevant. Thats the worst thing