Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
The National Assembly the people are picking a new congress which is currently controlled by opposition parties but they boycotted the elections saying it was a fraud. In this Voting Center in the macoutes district that is normally a lot of people when these election today what you have is a country which has been rejected and not just in the photos and videos but across the country the contrast to this is to go out of his chiefs to demand their rights to choose the ukase getting to roll out the 1st doses of the Coronavirus Vaccine made on tuesday the initial batches have been distributed to toss bottle selected to administer it. As a doctor this is a really exciting moment n. H. S. Staff around the country vaccination hub such as this one we hear at today have been working tirelessly to make sure that we are prepared to commence vaccination on tuesday this feels like the beginning of the end but of course its a marathon not a sprint and it will take many months for us to vaccinate eve
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Interview of the new acting director of cisa, the department of Homeland Securitys key cyberofficial branden wells. Ill be back at the end of the day for the summits final session, a covering with three of the top Cyber Security voices on capitol hill. Senator mark warner, representative will hurd and representative lauren underwood. Pie would also strongly encourage you today, take a look at our new report released yesterday by the aspen Cyber Security group that laid out a National Cyber agenda for the Biden Administration and the 117th congress. It outlines actionable steps, the art of the possible, as we call it in the cybergroup. And help build a more secure foundation for the internet and our digital economy. A full report is available at aspenvi aspencybersummit. Org. And many of the key voices that went into writing that report youve heard from at the summit already and today. Im pleased to introduce my friend from npr who will be speaking with fbi Deputy Assistant director tan
Challenging and trying to overturn those results and win the 2nd term in the white house donald trump is also urging georgia voters to come out to the polls in january for our Critical Senate runoff race he says it will control not just the future of the senate which republicans currently hold but the future of their. The u. S. Has reported a Record Number of covert 1000 infections for the 3rd day in a row nearly 230000 cases were recorded over the last 24 hours according to Johns Hopkins university the u. S. Has seen a major resurgence of the virus over the past months putting even more pressure on hospitals u. K. Media is reporting that the british cabinet will support Prime Minister boys johnson over a no deal breaks it the u. K. And the e. U. s to let on its less than a month before the deadline to reach a deal talks are set to continue later on sunday. A committee in the us has found that to wreck to microwave radiation is the likely cause of an outbreak of mysterious illnesses am