The committee on Homeland Securitys subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all im sure i speak to for all of us here on the day as expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events liking the one yesterday demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and eevlt and hopefully it will give us all a renewed senses of purpose as we approach the tasks of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of homeland securities Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Were here today at the start of national Cyber Security Awareness Month to discuss what i believe is one of the defining policy challengings. The Cyber Security posture of the United States. Weve seen Cyber Attacks hit nearly every sector. And it is our shared duty to insure that were doing our very best to defend against
The committee on Homeland Securitys subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all im sure i speak to for all of us here on the day as expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events liking the one yesterday demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and eevlt and hopefully it will give us all a renewed senses of purpose as we approach the tasks of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of homeland securities Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Were here today at the start of national Cyber Security Awareness Month to discuss what i believe is one of the defining policy challengings. The Cyber Security posture of the United States. Weve seen Cyber Attacks hit nearly every sector. And it is our shared duty to insure that were doing our very best to defend against
Identifying on the Agency Networks and allow us to better prioriti prioritize. Thanks. So one of the other points i want to cover today was last week the gao came out with a fairly critical report one that would appear to be most troubling said only 7 of the 24 csf agencies have programs with any functions considered effective per the niche standards for Cyber Security control. That doesnt sound very good. I want to give you the opportunity to as we talk about the Cyber Security posture of the dot guv, reconcile that with the report. Sir, i think that we have weve learned a lot over the years about agency capac tattoo manage Cyber Security risks and the resources they have to do so. I can say theyve prioritized across the highest level of government. What weve learned through engagement in partnership and measuring agencies is there remains significant gaps and we have built over the last couple of years and are continuing to build Technical Assistance capabilities. Things like design
Show for it, period. Instead chairman bird is a tool for the panels top democrat, senator mark warner. They urged reporters to tune in to a News Conference promising the committee will make news in the russian investigation. What did they produce . More grand standing and bird and warner said they have no evidence that the Trump Campaign in any way coordinated or colluded with russia and they presented all of this in big posters to show how they wasted taxpayer money and claimed to have intrude more than 100 witness and holding 11 open hearings and the result is it nothing. And the committee obviously should realize it is time to shut down their witch hunt, but senator bird cant face reality. Now, it is safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly. And initial interviews and document review renerated hundreds of requests on our part for information and identified many leads that expanded our initial inquiry. Lou the senator thinks he is being cute. It is pure grand standing by se
Instead chairman bird is a tool for the panels top democrat, senator mark warner. They urged reporters to tune in to a News Conference promising the committee will make news in the russian investigation. What did they produce . More grand standing and bird and warner said they have no evidence that the Trump Campaign in any way coordinated or colluded with russia and they presented all of this in big posters to show how they wasted taxpayer money and claimed to have intrude more than 100 witness and holding 11 open hearings and the result is it nothing. And the committee obviously should realize it is time to shut down their witch hunt, but senator bird cant face reality. Now, it is safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly. And initial interviews and document review renerated hundreds of requests on our part for information and identified many leads that expanded our initial inquiry. Lou the senator thinks he is being cute. It is pure grand standing by senator burr, and senat