data with the federal government, in exchange the federal government would give them liability protection. everyone thought it was going to go smoothly. it would go to the senate. unfortunately, the hiccup in the is that the. republicans there tried to move to put the cyber security bill in an overall defense bill.the. republicans there tried to move to put the cyber security bill in an overall defense bill. democrats did not like that so cyber security has been stalled in the senate. so there have not been systemic reforms made to a system which allowed for all those data breaches at target, at sony, at opm. today i talked to one aide with homeland security that immediately their ears perked up when it became known that it was both united and new york stock exchange were down today. they told me thank god that was just a coincidence, but this is something that we re very fearful of because when you go through the federal systems, and you go through even company systems, a lot are outd
adhere to because it s such a ground breaking field. so they still have a lot of work on this issue on capitol hill and they need to get rid of a lot of partisanship surrounding it. very interesting perspective. luke russert, thank you. for more, let s bring in peter welch, he served on the national security subcommittee as well as branch on if he cantechnology communications. one thing that i m reminded of today is frequently when we think about cyber security we think about hacks, we think about government systems. but in fact most of the computer systems we rely on in our day to day lives are private systems. so how much control or how much protection is the government able to give us with regard to private computer systems? the government can t give security with respect to private systems, but what we can do is have a national standard that requires these private companies that have publicly impacting
the whole internet roll out and build out. and we need that. we need it in rural america and we need it obviously in urban america, as well. and that s where i think there should be some public investment to make sure that the systems we have in place are the most robust that allow for redundancy, so that our private sector that does have these interactions that are so crucial to our economy have the interdictionfrastructure that they need to get the job done safely and securely. some might suggest the way things are run in d.c. and the people that are running things there are a bit behind or not as up-to-date especially when it comes to technology. but we re talking about cyber security here and how important it is as we move forward as a nation in protecting the american people. what do you say to folks that say the people making these big decisions don t even understand technology and that s a real problem? well, do i work withi do work with some of the best minds in the 18th
military and how much they rely on the stielt systems and computer systems and if something were to happen there, what would the implications be there. a few years ago there was an exercise called moonlight mays. during the exercise they tried to highlight all those things. one of the most glaring failures we recognized we had to fix was blood supply. they penetrated a dod computer system which controlled information, only information not the physical supply of blood. they contaminated the data making the entire blood supply unusable unavailable to dod. so it wasn t the airplanes couldn t fly. it wasn t they weren t ready, it s the system that controlled it was down. satellites, u.s. of emt against us. these are all things that are real and we must take seriously. otherwise we could suffer a
for court orders. they want back end access. rand paul and others feel the same way. and as we saw with the local snowden controversy, people are not necessarily comfortable with the government having the means to get into their e-mail especially through encryption. where he saw the opm data hack, now these glitches today with while not a hack and not terrorist related or anything like that are still very unsettling for people and makes them question how secure are all of our systems. i wouldn t say cyber security has been top of mind for your average voter this election season, but i would think the candidates to need to have answers in place and are going to get asked more and more about cyber security as people become aware of the risks that we do face here in the country. absolutely. these three incidents with united, with the wall street journal and nyse were reportedly not related, but as soon as this was going down you saw twitter just explode with people making jokes ab