Captioning performed by vitac through our cloudbased shared service platform, its a fed ramped cloud where we get the sensors out for those small and micro agencies and feed that data rather than into individual dashboards at their sites, feed it up into a fed ramped cloud where each agency has their multitenant dashboard. Thats been a great accomplishment for the program in terms of for the first time were getting near realtime visibility of those smaller micro agencies and helping them get the capabilities they need to protect their Critical Mission systems. One of the early wins for the program, once we were getting automated discovery capabilities out to the network, we were able to see on average across the federal government that there were 75 more assets than what were being reported up manually. So from that measurement we want to continue to build on that. Now we have all of this vulnerability information feeding up to the Agency Dashboard summarized up to the federal dashboar
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t
Important challenge we have got in our lifetimes. It is always going to be the most important challenge. If we do not get this right, we have got nothing. It is education and it is climate. I have [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. 2024] we will break away at this pointer for live coverage of the u. S. House. Lawmakers are considering a handful of bills today, including one that doubles u. S. Customs area of operation in coastal waters. Live coverage of the u. S. House is here on cspan. The clerk h. R. 53433, a bill to amend the Small Business investment act of 1958, to exclude from the limit on leverage certain amounts invested in Smaller Enterprises located in rural or lowincome areas and Small Businesses and Critical Technology areas and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr
Evaluating candidates for federal Cyber Security positions. Now live to the house floor. Thr purposes thr pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedingses today to motion to suspend the rules or votes objected under clause 6 of rule 20. The house will resume proceedings at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Mr. Comer i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 292 the speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 24355 creekside road in Santa Clarita, california as the William Reynolds post Office Building pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Comer and the gentleman from maryland, mr. Raskin each will control 20 minutes. Mr. Comer i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material. I yield myself such time as i ma
I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Mr. Lahood i want to welcome the witnesses here today and welcome chairman smith, Oversight Subcommittee Research and Technology Ranking member lipinski, our expert witnesses and members of the audience. Cybersecurity, a concept we hear mentioned frequently, especially in this period of rapidly emerging threats, is an everevolving concept. Maintaining an effective cybersecurity posture requires constant vigilance as new threats emerge and old ones return. Too often, however, when we hear about the importance of cybersecurity, we are left without concrete steps to take to ensure or systems are best positioned to defend against emerging threats. One of the goals of todays hearing is to learn about real, tangible measures the government can take to ensure its i. T. Security systems are appropriately reenforced, to defend against new and emerging threats, including novel and sophisticated ransomware threats. The specific focus o