This morning we heard where we are today with cybersecurity. So, you know, my career in cybersecurity started when i joined the National Security agency and the offensive mission set and that gives you a perspective of how to defend against very advanced actors so the point of this panel this morning is to talk about the priorities but with a focus of how we resist attack. Okay . So on our panel today, we have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are really focused on Important Missions and are critical to the National Security. In my opinion, given my experience i think offense always wins. And with that mindset, i want to take a look at what were doing today and how we can give you all Lessons Learned and some front line knowledge about things to take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, though. Scaling. We all lots of systems. We are certainly dealing with a scale attack surface a
Okay . How we prevent the adversary from taking our stuff. We have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are really focussed on Important Missions and are critical to our national security. In my opinion and given my experience, i think offense always wins. With that mind set, i want to take a look at what were doing today and how we can give you all some Lessons Learned and some front line knowledge act things you can take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, though. Scaling. We all have lots of systems. We are certainly dealing with a scale of attack surface and were dealing with adversaries getting more and more advanced. Theyre more and more capable over the past five years. We certainly are scaling our budgets as well. You can see here were focussed on i. T. Modernization, spending 95 billion. We have cyber spending going up close to 10 billion. Is it actually working . And we al
Taking our stuff. We have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are focused on Important Missions and critical to our national security. In my opinion and given my experience i think offense always wins. With that mindset i want to look at what we can do today and Lessons Learned and front line knowledge things you can take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, scaling. We have lolts of systems, we are certainly dealing with a scaled attack surface and dealing with adversaries getting more and more advanced and theyre more and more capable over the past five years. You can see here were focussed on i. T. Modernization, spending 95 billion. We have cyber spending going up close to 10 billion. Is it actually working . And we also have a growing talent gap. With these things, i want to put the panelists on the spot early this morning and kick it off. Everybody in two to five sentences or