Summer meeting held in providence, rhode island, last week. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe chairs the nga. I would like to welcome everyone to the great state of rhode island and the official opening of the 2017 of the nations governors association. Before i get started i would like to recognize some of the very distinguished guest guest e with us. I would ask that they please stand when we recognize you. I would first as you will see at this summer meeting that first is the first time weve actually had a head of state, Prime Minister trudeau will be with us today, in addition we have representatives from all over the globe to show the growing importance of the governors and giddy with International Trade and Business Development issues around the globe and that we has governors want to do direct direct relationship with any of these countries and many of these businesses who have come to visit us here at the nga, and i thank them for i also want to thank china. I want to thank ambassador from china. He and his group were here yesterday come if we can give them a great round of applause for helping our opening lunch. [applause] and i think Governor Hogan for his stellar introduction yesterday at the lunch and the great attributes of the great state of maryland next to the great commonwealth of virginia. I would also like to reference premier brian and Canadian Premiere when from candidates who are here with us. If we could give them a great round of applause. [applause] governor xi and governor from japan. Give them a round of applause, please. [applause] mayor angel from mexico, and applause for the entire mexican delegation who have joined us here today. [applause] as we kick off this meeting i also want to get take a moment to recognize the support of many of our partners and supporters who we could not have this meeting without your support and funds are best practices and all the different initiatives of the governors for nearly 30 years the nga has partnered with the private sector to our newly relaunched nga Partners Program to the nga partners help support the organization not only financially but intellectually with a sharing of best practices as well as helping the nga stay tuned in the emergency policy trends that are happening in our individual states. A big thank you to all of our partners who are here with us today. Governors, thank them. [applause] next i would like to juarez governor raimondo . Where is our host governor . Well, we will skip that. I will let her come as soon as she gets her well hear from our opening governor. I would like to first of all have an adoption for a motion for the adoption of rules of procedure for this meeting. Would anyone make the motion . Governor malloy. May i have a second . All those in favor say aye. All opposed say nay. The motion is good. Governors come as you know under our policy process we adopt policies for two years at our winter meeting pic if anyone has questions regarding the policies i would ask you to see anna davis of the nga staff while you were here over the course of this we can. I would now like to announce the appointment of the following governors to the nominating committee for the 20162017 nga executive id like to welcome governor vice chairman governor sandoval who was here with us today. If we could give the governor a great round of applause. [applause] okay, great. So let me start off by saying first of all my main goal when launching my initiative, which was cybersecurity come was to elevate the importance of cybersecurity on every single governors agenda. I wanted to highlight why substitute he was more than just an Information Technology issue. I wanted to show the cybersecurity is a health issue and educational issue, a Public Safety issue and an economic issue as well as a democracy issue. When i launched my initiative i did not imagine that cybersecurity wouldve captured the National Headlines through so many different events that we experienced, including last years president ial election. As you know in november thousands of internet connected devices including security cameras that were an ocean away were used to launch a cyber attack that took down several Popular Web Services such as netflix as well as the new york times. This may we saw a cyber attack that the world has never experienced before. The Wannacry Ransomware locked out users all across the globe and made it impossible for doctors and other practitioners to access their devices. Experts today are still assessing the impact of this incident. And potentially more worrisome that we are now seeing adversaries use Cyber Attacks to undermine the core Democratic Values by attempting to influence elections, not only here but as well as in europe. He is a troubling times. Yet there are new initiative at the continued commitment of all of you we have now convened experts from cybersecurity policy from the State Government, from the private sector to Higher Education and to all the federal agencies involved to discuss this critical issue and to identify ways for all of us to meet the threat. Let me just say as a relates to virginia, in virginia with taken very significant steps over the past three years to address cybersecurity for our commonwealth, for now and beyond. We are in a very unique position in virginia. We have the Largest Naval base in the world where the pentagon, the Central Intelligence agency, quantico and 27 military installations that are constantly under assault. We have come a long way in strengthening our systems and our policies. Last year we expanded cybersecurity apprenticeships for the first time in virginias history. We are now allowing visitors to stand up registered apprenticeship for cybersecurity occupations. In virginia if you will come work for the state for two years, we will pay your education to get a cybersecurity degree. We have Creative Partnerships to strengthen cybersecurity employment and Educational Opportunities and scholarships around the commonwealth. I launched the cyber vets Virginia Program to provide cybersecurity training to our veterans. Today virginia we have 36,000 open cyber jobs. We now have nearly 600 cyber companies. Those 36,000 jobs, the starting pay is 88,000. You do not need a fouryear degree. It is a twoyear degree or less and its imperative for all of us as governors to make sure were building that workforce of the 21st century earlier this year urging entered a Strategic Partnership with Amazon Web Services and the virginia cyber range to make virginia a National Resource center for cybersecurity education. Virginia has an awardwinning Cybersecurity Program in place. We can build on that Strong Foundation but as we all know as governors it requires continued diligence. We might be in great shape today but tomorrow some new cyber hacker is going to come up with some latest technology to get into our system. Government is a very attractive target for our cyber criminals. As you know we have collectively more data than the federal government through our drivers licenses come to our healthcare, medicaid programs, for our state tax returns. Many of the cyber hackers steal the best opportunity to get that data is to come into the states because of the wealth of data that we have. So it takes a commitment of all the governors to keep our families and our business is safe. These threats do not stop at state lines. Since july with accomplished a lot since we met. We have held a series of roundtables focusing on the cybersecurity risk facing the health sector, critical infrastructure, educational institutions and Small Businesses. We have also spent significant time highlighting the opportunities cybersecurity presents for all of us, and the opportunities of a more connected society and a vibrant technology economy. As you know we have held to soldout events, to regional summits can one in boston and san jose, where many of you sent teams of state officials to discuss pertinent cybersecurity issues in to identify them formidable goals and objectives to move our states forward. As ive said from day one, if we do a great job and bring it to but there are states that dont do anything as it relates to cybersecurity, they will reach our state through a back door, through a healthcare provider, and should provider or some other business that is the business with both of our state. So these summits culminated in a National Summit in june where i was proud to say 45 states attended and learned about how future cyber trends and how to use Innovative Technology to mitigate those threats. At our winter meeting many of you may recall that we giv get h one of you a cyber scorecard which no else saw but yourselves that highlighted the areas where you are exceeding, areas that you could use a little more help, and areas that you need, your full and immediate attention. This continues to be a useful highlevel tool that you and your team can utilize to track your progress. Our cyber best Practices Center now has the updated report cards for all of you. We were also joined in february by admiral michae mike rogers, e command of your cyber, and the director of the National Security agency for an off the record discussion on how states, the National Guard and the Cyber Command can work together. He stressed to all of us governors that we are at the forefront, that he cannot do his job as head of the National Security agency if we and the states are not doing our part. We held a joint governor sanded and meeting a cybersecurity priorities and challenges of the United States congress. We had a great group of governors to meet, governor sandoval and i went up and met with the leadership of the house and the senate. We have implored of the congress to have a cybersecurity committee. One does not exist today in congress. It is spread among many of the different committees, and there is jurisdictional territories where people are not wanted to give up some of their jurisdictions. We once again as governors call upon the congress to put together a National Committee to deal with this issue and to but funny and so that we at the state level can do our jobs. Lastly, we put together 18 documents that highlighted the recommendations and best practices of the National Guard, Cybersecurity Response plans, and workforce development. That you can all implement your state starting today pick you all have those documents in front of you and they are maintained at the nga cyber resource page, nga. Org. This is a package of the all of you have in front of you. It has all the latest data pick it has what you need to do as a governor to make sure that your state is up and beating the threat of cybersecurity. What we saw last fall was only the beginning. Richard clarke, who is a National Expert on cybersecurity, advisor for four president s, briefed me the other day and said the actions that we saw last year as relates to russia and other nationstates is only the beginning. It is only going to ramp up, and they want to wrap up by coming after that state data. So i would say its incumbent upon us as governors to make sure that we are doing our part to keep our states and our nation safe. Most of your begun implementing these recommendations. We say thank you dirk since the launch of my initiative over 30 governors have now signed an executive order or legislation or announced a states average good initiative. This does resulted in a dozen executive orders, 14 sign bills, in 17 initiatives. In idaho, for example, the government is of the many recommendations made by Cybersecurity Governance body and is recently named a state cybersecurity director. In new mexico Governor Martinez signed legislation clarifying when the National Guard can be used during a cyber event. In Oregon Governor brown signed an executive order to unify all cybersecurity efforts into one agency. Lastly, our incoming chair governor sandoval recently signed a bill to great a Cyber Defense center to lead all their cyber projects in their state. And more can be done. There are now at least 34 pending bills in state legislatures that you can all help advocate for and push through so that they could land on your desk to sign. Although these are great accomplishments, we must never ever be complacent o are crimins and foreign adversaries will continue to pursue vulnerabilities in our defenses that while on our citizens, cripple critical infrastructure, and steal our resources. That is why my initiative will live on ddgs Resource Center first date of cybersecurity that ive been privileged to culture with governor snyder. Through the center of the nga staff will continue to assist your states and diplomat best practices and be a lasting resource for you and your staff. Before we go on to our speakers and our discussion, i do want to give a special shout out to jeff and tim, and ask them at all the folks who worked on cybersecurity come if they could stand up, and if you could give them a great round of applause for the great work that they have done. [applause] thank you, gentlemen. Before we get to the stickers, i see that our host governor has arrived. I know she was busy doing some interviews outside, but i would like to turn if i could overdo it would like to give an opening statement. I do what you thank governor raimondo for hosting indisputable state this great nga summer meeting pit and very proud to say that a record number, 33 governors, and 1800, 1800 folks have signed up to come to this, which is by far more than three times more than weve ever had. I know its because of our great governor and the great state of rhode island. But i do want to thank him i know the time and work you put into this, she knew, so on behalf of all the governors, thank you, and great to be in rhode island. Thank you, terry. [applause] thank you. Good morning. For those of you i havent seen yet, welcome to rhode island. We are very pleased with the turnout dictators broken every record as i understand it somewhat to thank all of you, some of whom have traveled very far to be here. I appreciate that. I also want to think and acknowledge kerry for his leadership on this issue. It is true that you be leading us as the chair, but i think you should feel great about your legacy. Because you started an initiative that many of us have followed. I know i did. I signed an executive order around cyber for the task force in place and have hired for the First Time Ever a director of cyber and Homeland Security reporting directly to me. So i think were all doing our part. The hardest part of all of this, of course, is behavior change. I would love to hear, you know, technology is one thing. Resources are one thing. This is really about getting people to change the way they do, when they log on, if they change passwords, how they do their business. Thats even harder than it has been with technology. And so i think as we go forward under governor sandoval also leadership, anything we can do to focus on that would be helpful. But were thrilled to have anybody in rhode island. I want to make a quick plug, it is where having a governors only session with two important ceos, the ceo of cbs, larry merlot, and the ceo of igg. Both very substantial companies, and sponsors of this event. Bats at noon. Governors only and i would love it if all of you guys could be there. Thank you. Thank you governor. So back to the cybersecurity. To add a little context to the issue even discussing we are honored today that with three great speakers with us and i appreciate them coming to be with us today. Matt spence is a partner at the Venture Capital firm and restore whats. Chris bream is a chief Technology Officer at tanium and wes kremer from the rake and company, Vice President and president of raytheon integrated Defense Systems. These distinctive speakers are here to provide a window into the future of cybersecurity come what it will mean for our states and how we can take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in this sector. I would now like to get over to matt. Matt, the floor is yours. Great. Thank you very much. Governor mcauliffe, thank you for the invitation to speak about cybersecurity and in particular for your initiative in raising this issue to the governors in this area. By way of background on the part of the Venture Capital. We are a Venture Capital firm that invests into an exciting and emerging technologies. Everything from Artificial Intelligence to drones to Financial Technology to