Security, additional investments in technology, federal Cyber Security, cyber education, new cyber 10 went in the and improved cyber infinite response. Dhs has auroral role in zero most every aspect of this plan. As reflected in the 2017 budget request, we went to expand our Cyber Response team from 10 to 48 and double the number of Cyber Security advisers to make house calls to assist private sector organizations with in person customized Cyber Security assessment and best practices. Building on dhs is stop, think, connect campaign we will promote Public Awareness on multifactor authentication and collaborate with underwriter laboratories others to develop a Cyber Security Assurance Program to test and Certified Network devices within the internet, such as your home alarm system, refrigerator or even your pacemaker. Last year we greatly expanded the capability of dhs national Cyber Security Communications Integration center. It increased its distribution of information, the number of
Johnson live at the scene for us. Lets tell you exactly what happened. The students were outside of the walter f. Robinson school. There had been a fire drill a little bit earlier this afternoon. They were going back inside the school at the time. The horrific accident happened right out here on west 31st and jfk boulevard. The principal made the decision to go ahead and put a human chain with all the adults around the school so the students would not see the accident happening outside of their school. We understand the patient had just left out of a Doctors Office here on the corner of west 31st and jfk boulevard. He had walked out of the Doctors Office. Apparently he was getting ready to get inside his vehicle at the time. Thats when the 43yearold man was struck by a pickup truck that was heading northbound here in bayonne. He was getting in to his car and apparently all of the items, his sneakers, cell phone, several that truck that struck him continued northbound on kennedy bouleva
To the extent you can in the public forum to make sure that they are appropriately addressed and that could be a number of these things. Just to highlight one thing in particular given the nature of how the terrorist threat has evolved, i think it is incumbent upon the federal level to share as much intelligence as we can with state and local Law Enforcement. They do an excellent job at the federal level of detecting investigating and interdicting terrorist threats almost on a weekly if not a dalia basis and ive been constantly impressed with how their methods have evolved to match the threat but it highlights that its also critical that we get information out to state and local Law Enforcement as well so that they are aware of what we are seeing is a. With respect to the potential coming to the United States it is we are trying to do the right thing. We are trying to do the other right thing. Its something that we have learned how to do better screening people. The experience we have
Enforcement intelligence and National Security community at screening folks. That said, there is no such thing as a norisk enterprise, and there are things deficits that we face. Im not comfortable talking about them in an open session. I dont want the bad guys to know i understand. Thank you. No if i could. Please. With regard to Syrian Refugees in particular, i agree totally with what jim said. We should do the right thing by accepting more but we have to be careful in doing it. We have improved the process for vetting from a security standpoint the refugees who are aid mitted in this country, and im committed to making sure we maintain that process. Thank you. Director comey, you mentioned encryption to protect against criminals and you mentioned confidences are underway. Can you tell us about that . This is real important. Were having increasingly productive conversation wiz industry. I think in part the isil threat focused everybodys minds mindsd understood were not making this if
I want to welcome our distinguished panel here. Our witnesses. Thank you for your time and thoughtful testimony. Thank you for your service to the nation. When i took over chairmanship of the Committee Ten months ago, the first thing i did was reach out to senator carper, another person of integrity, and suggested we develop a statement. We came up with one that is simply to enhance the economic and National Security of america. It starts the Ranking Member, chairman and the committee on agreement. And it directed the activity of the committee. The other thing we did was establish, we have come committees in one, Homeland Security and government affairs, but on the Homeland Security side, what the hearing is about, we established five priorities. Border security, cybersecurity, protecting the infrastructure including the electical grill, doing what it takes to fight terrorism, and the fifth p priority is directed toward the secretary but doing everything we can to help you achieve your