Good afternoon, im scott mcgrew. We usually have ceos, i introduce them with a bit about their company and balance sheet. My first guest is not a ceo. Then i thought, what if he were . How would i introduce him . He has 984,000 customers. Hes head of an organization with revenue of nearly 3 billion, but no profits. A company employing more than 5,000 people working on everything from aviation to security to dogcatching. Sam lecardo is mayor of san jose. The 10th largest city in the united states, and the selfproclaimed capital of Silicon Valley. Hes a graduate of georgetown and harvard and a former prosecutor. Joined by mark million of bloomberg and mikhail levram of fortune. I didnt grow up i spent a great deal of my life in the south bay. There is this feeling sometimes of the little brother status of the south bay. Id like to point out to anyone who doesnt known it that san joses the largest of the three, oakland, San Francisco and san jose are. We still the capital of Silicon Valle
Tell me exactly briefly, quickly, then well turn to our things and come back to the report per se, how this came about. It came about, the president looked at what the challenges were and things that had been addressed in the first seven years of his term and determined that there were a number of challenges that continued. Essentially what this was was a preparation of a transition memo for the next president. Jim clapper, the directorer of National Intelligence, has the last three or four years in each of his presentations to the congress, on what the major threats are facing the United States, has ranked cybersecurity number one. Its just not the case that the country has treated it as the number one threat. We have far more resources and emphasis and mind share and attention to counterterrorism, which is appropriate. And homeland security. But we were, in terms of a whole range of dimensions, really kind of underfocused on the cybersecurity challenge. There were a number things tha
Tell me exactly briefly, quickly, then well turn to our things and come back to the report per se, how this came about. It came about, the president looked at what the challenges were and things that had been addressed in the first seven years of his term and determined that there were a number of challenges that continued. Essentially what this was was a preparation of a transition memo for the next president. Jim clapper, the directorer of National Intelligence, has the last three or four years in each of his presentations to the congress, on what the major threats are facing the United States, has ranked cybersecurity number one. Its just not the case that the country has treated it as the number one threat. We have far more resources and emphasis and mind share and attention to counterterrorism, which is appropriate. And homeland security. But we were, in terms of a whole range of dimensions, really kind of underfocused on the cybersecurity challenge. There were a number things tha
Adviser tom donnellan. Im pleased to have both of them here. Tell me briefly and then we will turn to some other issues and come back to the report how this came about. The president looked at what the challenges were and things that have been addressed in the first seven years of his term and determined there were a number of challenges that continued. Essentially what this was was a preparation of a transition memo for the next president. , the director of National Intelligence, has for the last three or four years in each of his presentations to the congress on what the major threat facing the United States are has ranked Cyber Security number one. And its just not the case that this country has treated it as the number one threat. Andave far more resources emphasis in mind share and attention to counterterrorism, which is appropriate, but in terms of a whole range of your under focused on the Cyber Security challenge. Charlie what did you do . Withi was honored to serve tom as the
Adviser tom donnellan. Im pleased to have both of them here. Tell me briefly and then we will turn to some other issues and come back to the report how this came about. The president looked at what the challenges were and things that have been addressed in the first seven years of his term and determined there were a number of challenges that continued. Essentially what this was was a preparation of a transition memo for the next president. , the director of National Intelligence, has for the last three or four years in each of his presentations to the congress on what the major threat facing the United States are has ranked Cyber Security number one. And its just not the case that this country has treated it as the number one threat. Andave far more resources emphasis in mind share and attention to counterterrorism, which is appropriate, but in terms of a whole range of your under focused on the Cyber Security challenge. Charlie what did you do . Withi was honored to serve tom as the