Pennsylvania and is chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, that subcommittee is really key to telecom policy, isnt it . Guest it sure is but it is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telling mitigation policies and a lot of interesting type of issues with more to come. Host we will explore some of those in this next half hour but i want to start with some news that came out this week which is the sec declaring while way and is et corporations to security threats which what is your view of that . I think there is some validity to that and that is one of the reasons why you saw the bill we passed in the energy and Commerce Committee with greg and myself which is, now were just waiting for the appropriators to put some money in it because we estimated it will take one, 2 million to assist the Smaller Companies that fought that equipment to make that whole so we can remove the equipment and put the other equipment in. We
Panic and chaos. [background noises] exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of witnesses. A collection of expertise to help us make sense of what the chinese, and his partys doing in cyberspace and i can better defend ourselves. Our hats off we spent a lot of time on this committee debating or thinking about the question of whether xi jinping will make a move militarily against taiwan. And what would be a timeline for such a move . Obviously this is a nun on noble question people continue to debate it. In some meaningful sense i wonder if such an invasion or a preparation which would be incredibly costly if the Ranking Member very eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. The intelligence preparation of the battle space has already begun. Put differently for over 20 years they have been attacking us the government, defense Contractors Technology firms in cyberspace that is a fact. For a long time the attacks rubbing a v
Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of witnesses. A collection of expertise to help us make sense of what the chinese, and his partys doing in cyberspace and i can better defend ourselves. Our hats off we spent a lot of time on this committee debating or thinking about the question of whether xi jinping will make a move militarily against taiwan. And what would be a timeline for such a move . Obviously this is a nun on noble question people continue to debate it. In some meaningful sense i wonder if such an invasion or a preparation which would be incredibly costly if the Ranking Member very eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. The intelligence preparation of the battle space has already begun. Put differently for over 20 years they have been attacking us the government, defense Contractors Technology firms in cyberspace that is a fact. For a long time the attacks rubbing a valuable technology that was then used
Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of the select committee will come to order. This is a historic hearing, we have never had this combination of witnesses, a fantastic collection of expertise to help us make sense of the Chinese Communist party is doing in cyberspace and how we can better defend ourselves. I thought this morning we spend a lot of time on the committee debating or thinking about the question of whether china will make a move militarily against taiwan and what would be the timeline of such a move. Obviously this is a unknowable question and people continue to debate it, but in some meaningful sense i wonder if such invasion or the preparation for such invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. If the intelligence operation of the battle space has begun for over 20 years the ccp has been attacking government, defense contractors, technology
The 14th annual billingtons cybersecurity summit in washington d. C. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] good morning and welcome to the 14th annual billington summit. With the performance of her National Anthem please welcome to the stage oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were soaked gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that starspangled banner yet wave or the land of the free and the home of the brave please welcome emcees for the 14th annual billington cybersecurity summit billington cybersecurity chief of staff and director of finance. Thank you. Thank you for that beautiful rendition of our National Anthem. Lets give her another round of applause. [applause] good afternoon and welcome it. We are thri