Transcripts For CSPAN Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnso

Transcripts For CSPAN Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson On Federal Cybersecurity 20240622

Would strongly suggest we move that up and set those dates to the appropriate authorities. Bring it up about 10 days and then see what happens to the situation because host thank you for calling. Bill joins us from new jersey. Line for independents. Go ahead. Caller i have several problems, but the one to address right now is the immigration. Why cant we go back to the days of the 1950s and 1960s when we used to only allow so many people at a time instead of hundreds of thousands that come in here and take our country over . Why cant it just be a few hundred at a time . It that works out, let another few hundred and. This let a fewour people are starving to death and theres nothing we can do. Tax, tax tax to pay for these programs. Host valerie in california. Democratic caller. Immigration, what do you think . Caller i think this last incident with the illegal alien killing the woman in san francisco, its been all pushed over and needs to be addressed in the gun laws. If that gun had not been stored improperly that was a problem. I live in california. I live in a latin society. I love it. This is where i was born and raised. Im ashamed of all the people talking about how we should close our borders. Were going to return the statue of liberty . Host what do you think of the sanctuary city concept . Caller rick perry has tried to be we have sanctuary because this is our culture here. What are we going to do . Start arresting them in arizona because they are mexican or guatemalan . Were not going to do that in california. Host Mexican Foreign minister in this story Mexican Foreign minister makes rare visit to texas to strengthen ties. In a rare visit to texas, the Mexican Foreign minister urged u. S. Politicians to see his country more as friend than foe. U. S. Politicians who u. S. Mexico Security Problems to reap political benefits are reacting to a lot. Asked about trumps remarks, he called them ignorant. Bruce joining us from florida. Go ahead, bruce. Im a policeman in florida. Anytime we took up an illegal and called immigration, they would not come get him. What really bothers me is, when i was growing up, we would run across the river for fish and chips and stick by customs, etc. If i did that today, i would be imprisoned fined the mexicans come across the border and get free room and board until they are sent back come if they are sent back. Host gerald on the line for independents. What are your thoughts . Are you with us . We will move along to alicia in kansas. Line for democrats. Caller im tired of people saying that i was born in texas. Im tired of people saying they are coming over here to take the jobs. There are some good people and bad people. The lady before me said they are taking the jobs over. What jobs . I used to work out picking cotton. I dont understand what jobs. Im tired of people saying they are taking jobs over. Host line for republicans. Go ahead. Caller there is a number of problems that are going on right now. I was born and raised in southern california. I have seen pretty much firsthand the stuff that goes on. The money needs to be cut off. At some point. Theyve waited until its too late to do much about it. They say its in the 20 million Illegal Immigrants that are here. Its more than that. Its not just mexico. Its also other countries. I dont know what they plan on doing about it and the taxpayers are footing the bill. Its out of control. I watch and see whats going on within their collecting a lot of money the numbers of people here on a daily basis on how many billions of dollars a year are being spent on a freebie they are rewarded for coming here illegally. There is no consequences, no prosecution. Its unbelievable to me. Do you have another comment . Thank you for calling. Denver, colorado. Dan joins us on the line for independents. Caller we should id chip all the Illegal Immigrants. And apart them all. Keep the nicelooking women. I sort of feel like Tommy Lee Jones in no country for old men. Host dennis and riverside california. Line for democrats. Caller im a u. S. Citizen and taxpayer at the border. As a chicano, i have faced the reality of our Immigration Enforcement activities. As a u. S. Citizen born in california. Im concerned that when we characterize these children that are coming out of a need to free the conditions that our military interventions and economic exploitation and political has asserted in Central America for over 120 years, im concerned that this provides a platform for people to exert racist rhetoric we are facing with the unaccompanied minors. An issue of basic human right. These children are targeted by gangs, targeted by International Criminal organizations. They often have to do with drug sales. We have a tremendous demand for that in the unites states of america. We are the most wealthy country in the world. These are countries that we have extracted a lot of wealth from. Back in the 1950s, attorneys for the they were able to convince the Eisenhower Administration to exert a lot of covert operations to destabilize democratically elected president s in order to respond to companies. Many decades later, and as weve seen the key militant result of our interventions, including the Reagan Administration who legally illegally we have the cumulative effect. It was george w. Bush who signed the most recent reauthorization of the Human Trafficking bill that provided certain protections, including hearings that these children would be able to be protected. Those are factors that americans should be aware of. Host thank you very much for calling. This from the hill. Trump rights momentum to arizona rides momentum to arizona. Donald trump brings his spotlight to arizona he is joining forces at a rally saturday afternoon with the sheriff and immigration hardliner whose as aliens can expect a free write to jail. Ride to jail. On the outcome of the Homeland Security we will hear from jeh johnson. He spoke earlier this week about Cyber Security efforts including whats being done to address the Government Data breach at opm. This event took place at the center for strategic and international studies. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] at the end of the program today please stay in your seats until the secretary can leave, and then and this is a little but unusual please leave a soon as you can. We happen to have another secretary visiting today. The secretarygeneral of the communist party of vietnam who is following, so we have a pretty highsecurity event here a couple of highsecurity events in a row. We do a lot of events as you know, but this is a bit of a juggling act today. With that, it is my pleasure to welcome my colleague, the very distinguished and honorable sean okeefe. Sean is former secretary of the navy, former director of nasa, and being a tulane graduate, i feel compelled to say former chancellor of lsu, and he is actually wearing lsu tigers today, so go tigers. Sean is here at csis as a Senior Advisor with the maxwell school. Some of my favorite people are in the front row. Judge webster, mr. Hand, so good to see you all. Thank you for being here. With that, i would like to produce the honorable sean okeefe. [applause] mr. Okeefe thank you, andrew. I appreciate the opportunity to be here to moderate this particular session on such an important occasion. While some of that may be in reference to this mornings event, which we will hear more from the secretary in a minute i think the other thing we need to reflect on a bit is we just emerged from yet another uneventful National Holiday this past weekend, with absolutely no incidents whatsoever. Yet the reason for that is not accidental. It is a consequence of the diligence of extraordinary people, thousands of them on our behalf, who dedicate themselves to assuring that freedom to do the kinds of things that we did this past weekend, celebrating the birth of this nation, and also to recognize the extraordinary opportunities we have because of what they do. They get virtually no recognition for those nonevents. The gentleman who represents all of them here is a distinguished Public Servant who has spent a considerable period of his professional life in public service. Having started, certainly being involved as a professional attorney, he has risen through a number of different positions as the general counsel of the air force, the assistant u. S. Attorney of the Southern District of new york, as the general counsel of the defense department, prior to becoming the secretary of Homeland Security. He is the fourth to occupy that particular capacity. In each of these roles, he has distinguished himself as an exemplary Public Servant who has focused on the challenges of the kinds of jobs and issues that ultimately have been brought to head in this capacity, protecting all of us as the secretary of the department of Homeland Security. The honorable jeh johnson. [applause] sec. Johnson thank you very much, sean. Can everybody hear me . Ok. Thank you very much. Its great to be back here at csis. Thank you for allowing me to speak here today. I want to open my remarks by talking about todays events. The topic of this speech is Cyber Security. Related to Cyber Security, it appears that today we had system malfunctions at united, at the new york Stock Exchange, and the wall street journal. I have spoken to the cfo of united myself. It appears, from what we know at this stage, that the malfunctions at united and the Stock Exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the wall street journal at this point, except that their system is up again, as is the United Airlines system. Cyber security is a top priority for me, for the president , and for this administration. It is my personal mission to significantly enhance the department of Homeland Securitys role in the Cyber Security of our nation. Today i provide a status report on our efforts for the federal civilian, dotgov world in particular. I also emphasize the importance of passing new Cyber Security legislation, and soon, in this congress. I applaud the congress for their bipartisan efforts so far. I will begin this speech like i end most of them. I tell audiences that Homeland Security is a balance. A balance between basic physical security and the freedoms we expect as americans. As i have said many times, i can build you a perfectly safe city, but it will look like a prison. We can build more walls, install more invasive screening, interrogate more people, and make everyone suspicious of each other, but not at the cost of who we are as a nation of people who cherish privacy, value the freedom to travel in associate and celebrate our diversity. The same is true of Cyber Security. Cyber security involves striking a balance. I can build you a perfectly safe email system, but your contact will be limited to about 10 people. And you will be disconnected entirely from the internet and the outside world. This, too, would be like a prison. The reality is we live in an interconnected, networked world. Cyber security must be a balance between the basic security of online information and the ability to communicate with and benefit from the networked world. In the meantime, the reach of the internet is growing at an exponential rate. Today, there are more connected devices than human beings on the planet. In just five years, the number of devices connected to the internet is estimated to exceed 50 billion. At the same time, Cyber Threats are increasing in frequency, scale, sophistication, and severity. The ranges of cyber threat actors, methods of attack, and targeted victims are also expanding. This affects everyone, both in government and the private sector, across the country and across the globe. Not a week goes by without a news report of another organization being hacked. These threats come from a range of actors, including nationstates with highly sophisticated capabilities profitmotivated criminals, and ideologicallymotivated hackers or extremists. In the case of the breach of the office of Personnel Management a large amount of highly personal and Sensitive Information was taken by a very sophisticated actor. We have determined that federal personnel rectors were in fact taken by this actor. Dhs, the fbi, and the nsa have also determined opms system containing information was compromised. Opm provided notice to approximately 4. 2 Million People impacted by the data breach involving employee personnel records. Opm is still working with an Interagency Team to address the total number of people affected by the breach involving security clearance Background Investigation information. The opm breach also remains the subject of an ongoing investigation. We have strong evidence about the identity of the actors behind the breach. As the dni said last week, there is a leading suspect, but we are not prepared to publicly identify those actors at this time. To be frank, our federal Cyber Security is not where it needs to be. But we have taken and are taking accelerated and aggressive action to get there. In response to the opm breach, on june 12, the white house announced the establishment of a Cyber Security sprint team comprised of omb, nsa, dhs, and dod personnel to conduct a 30day review of the federal governments Cyber Security policies, procedures, and practices. On a reprioritized basis, we are deploying teams to assess the highest value systems across the federal civilian government and hunt for and remove adversaries identified in the system. This response to the opm breach is part of a much broader federal Cyber Security effort that has been underway for some time. There is a great deal that has been done and is being done now to secure our networks. We do in fact block a large number of intrusions, including those by state actors. But we can and must do more. As ive said before, congress can help. By law, each head of the federal department or agency is primarily responsible for his or her own Cyber Security. The department of Homeland Security has overall responsibility for protecting federal civilian systems from Cyber Threats, helping agencies better defend themselves, and providing Response Teams to assist agencies during significant incidents. National Security Systems such as those used by the military and the Intelligence Community are secured by the department of defense and the dni. There is no one Silver Bullet for Cyber Security. The key is to install multiple layers of protection to best secure our networks. The department of National Security integration system is the u. S. Governments 24 7 hub for Cyber Security information sharing, incident response, and coordination. 13 u. S. Departments and agencies and 16 private sector entities have regular dedicated liaisons, while over 100 private sector entities collaborate and share information with the nccic on a routine basis. Given the central importance to the dhs mission, i have elevated it within our structure so its leaders have a reporting relationship directly to me. They share information on Cyber Threats and incidents and provides onsite assistance to victims of cyber issues. In this fiscal year alone, they have shared over 6000 alerts and warnings and responded onsite to 32 incidents. Over double the number of onsite responses for the entire prior year. It is also the place where we manage the einstein system. Einstein is the first basic layer of protection. We provide at the Network Perimeter at each federal civilian department and agency. Einstein consists of three einstein one and two sit at the perimeter of the Agency Networks. Einstein one observes and records basic information about all activity entering and exiting an agency network. It is like a recording camera sitting on the perimeter fence to be reviewed when or if a certain individual enters or exits the compound. Einstein two detects known prohibited adversaries that have entered or exited and alerts us to them. Einstein one and two detect and identify malicious activity. We share that information with all departments and agencies. This affords those agencies the opportunity to take appropriate actions to protect themselves. By the end of 2005, einstein one and two were deployed to protect only three federal agencies. Today, both protect all federal civilian traffic routed through a sec

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