And great set of speakers today, along with acknowledging additional support. I am here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, for what i hope is going conversationnating about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Brandon garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the important work our agency is doing. Is december 3. It is hard to believe that exactly a month ago on november 3 we were sitting down as a country to watch the first Election Results role in. Roll in. It feels like as a country we have lived about 25 years in the last month, and i would imagine for you, it has actually felt somehow longer than that. Byanted to start off today taking you actually back three thursday after the election. They put ou
Administration is helpful to the Incoming Administration in terms of making available materials from the departments and agencies. In modern times, has there been a president who resisted participating in the transition . No, they have not. You have had the, the president ial transitions act, which made it very clear that the federal government had a role in transitions. And with the coronavirus still raging, the stakes for a smooth transfer of power are extremely high. There are thousands of officials all across the government i can thely the pentagon and the department of health that want to get the vaccine out to 300 million americans and the sooner the biden team can start working with those officials the more ready they will be on january 20th. The General Services administration is usually an obscure government agency. But with the president s permission, it has now given the Biden Transition Team access to six Million Dollars in transition funds. And that the means they dont hav
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And that they might have actually changed the outcome of the election. That would be a regretful conclusion to reach in many months so it would be good cspan3 is live with the acting director of Cyber Security, brandon wales. And i want to thank intel and proof point for making this weeks summit possible and helping organize these conversations and let us talk with a great and diverse set of speakers today, along with acknowledging blue vector, cigma and the American Gas Association for their additional support. Im here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope is going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of Cyber Security and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the