Elections at the annual billington cybersecurity said david summit. This runs 20 minutes. Good morning. As you know by now my name is Todd Billington and its my pleasure to introduce to you a the next fireside chat. Brad is the executive Vice President for cybersecurity with. We are also honored with the vet said we are about 55 days away from the u. S. Election so it is my pleasure and honor to introduce to you brad for this important fireside chat. I appreciate the invite to be here today. It is a great pleasure to be here with chris. He mentioned how close we are to the election and we are thankful youve agreed to join us today and talk about some important topics. I think we should just dive right in. My heart is racing a little bit right now. I thought i had more time than that. Theres this other thing we have going on and certainly we saw the federal government moved from the office to telecommuting in a number of days and so what is your perspective around this new normal with t
That extremism is what we might call and essentially contested concept. In laymans terms it means Different Things to different people and certainly if you were 100 terrorism experts to define extremism, you would certainly get a wide number of answers if not 100. Speaking for myself, i would define extremism as not just believing certainly there is believe and then there is action. Sometimes scholars will distinguish between the two, but believing in things that are fundamentally radical. That would imply radical change for society. Extremistords, if the political views were actualized in society, society would be thaned in fundamental ways what it is now. Made are distinctions between extremism and violent extremism, a violent extremist is somebody who believes that violence is necessary to bring about these changes. To extremism on the far right, extremism on the far left, there are differences in terms of their beliefs. Anarchist believes a much different set of beliefs than a farr