Elections at the annual billington cybersecurity said david summit. This runs 20 minutes. Good morning. As you know by now my name is Todd Billington and its my pleasure to introduce to you a the next fireside chat. Brad is the executive Vice President for cybersecurity with. We are also honored with the vet said we are about 55 days away from the u. S. Election so it is my pleasure and honor to introduce to you brad for this important fireside chat. I appreciate the invite to be here today. It is a great pleasure to be here with chris. He mentioned how close we are to the election and we are thankful youve agreed to join us today and talk about some important topics. I think we should just dive right in. My heart is racing a little bit right now. I thought i had more time than that. Theres this other thing we have going on and certainly we saw the federal government moved from the office to telecommuting in a number of days and so what is your perspective around this new normal with t
Todd billington and its my pleasure to introduce to you a the next fireside chat. Brad is the executive Vice President for cybersecurity with. We are also honored with the vet said we are about 55 days away from the u. S. Election so it is my pleasure and honor to introduce to you brad for this important fireside chat. I appreciate the invite to be here today. It is a great pleasure to be here with chris. He mentioned how close we are to the election and we are thankful youve agreed to join us today and talk about some important topics. I think we should just dive right in. My heart is racing a little bit right now. I thought i had more time than that. Theres this other thing we have going on and certainly we saw the federal government moved from the office to telecommuting in a number of days and so what is your perspective around this new normal with the federal government and some of those that you are supporting . Just off the top its been hugely transformational. I think every asp
From the u. S. Election so it is my pleasure and honor to introduce to you brad for this important fireside chat. I appreciate the invite to be here today. It is a great pleasure to be here with chris. He mentioned how close we are to the election and we are thankful youve agreed to join us today and talk about some important topics. I think we should just dive right in. My heart is racing a little bit right now. I thought i had more time than that. Theres this other thing we have going on and certainly we saw the federal government moved from the office to telecommuting in a number of days and so what is your perspective around this new normal with the federal government and some of those that you are supporting . Just off the top its been hugely transformational. I think every aspect and how we engage. We will talk a good bit about the elections i imagine that just the way they are engaging and advising and working to provide cybersecurity supports two hour federal government part is
Lets jump right into it. Its safe to say we were thinking of the Home Strategies and the big focus was election 2020. We all know we had to leap into a new posture with people working from home and there is a lot of impact not to mention those just from the lifestyle of health to proliferate. It is a pretty big undertaking. I would say that i am really pleased with how prepared are. We already made made a number of platform decisions so weve are leveraging called services i would say we we have to like everyonehad to likeeveryone else learn how to do a better job probably the two biggest areas that were challenges and opportunities is to figure out how we do our work and in the same ways that we had before. We had to figure out different ways to have this footprint and giving as much of our work as we could where we learned a number of things. The other part of that is we serve the rest of the executive Branch Agencies as well as other constituent agencies. Many of them were less prepa
The most significant foreign actors targeting u. S. Elections include china and most notably russia. Remaining the most active threat the hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I want to call this hearing to order and i want to welcome todays witnesses. I want to warn them we are finishing up one vote. We will have another one. We will work through that process. People slipping in and out, i think you understand. The director of National Intelligence, director of cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and lisa knapp executive assistant director of the National Security branch at the fbi. Welcome to all of you. Todays hearing builds on the bipartisan effort and 2016. To educate the public on the intentions of adversaries seeking to undermine the integrity of our systems. And to ensure that u. S. Government is postured to protect our elections from those foreign threats. An Interagency Task forces tasked with protecting two forms of election interference. We have seen this since 2