Cybersecurity landscape, emerging threats and competing with the private sector for recruitment and retention of workforce talent. This discussion was part of the 14th annual billington cybersecurity summit in washington, d. C. Good morning. Thank you all for joining this session and thank you for having a discussion with us today. Is my pleasure. General nakasone, after he was here for the opening we had a meeting later that day and he was saying i got to open, it was so much fun and he was talking about the conversation he had and he said you are closing it and we will have its really exciting frankly conference for us because we focus so much on these issues and so its frankly an honor for me to be here. You really got the best of it from paul so its all downhill from there. Thank you. Lets jump into the topic of an workforce. We recognize the importance of a talented and Diverse Workforce and cybersecurity particularly given a lot of the challenges we face. Theres been some amazing
Counsel of the department of Homeland Security commented on the fact Homeland Security is a discipline and we see this in our law schools and undergraduate schools around the country were Homeland Security is taught today and we will be holding not on a penal josh will be moderating later. Celebrations and anniversaries come in 10 year intervals. Youre part of History Today with this 10th year program. The program really had its genesis to serving the general counsels office many years ago. So it is only appropriate today introduced the keynote speaker who is the current general counsel of the department of Homeland Security. The bible is the current general counsel and has served with distinction they are the last many years. Hes the chief legal officer of the department of Homeland Security and see if i lost track of how Many Employers you actually supervise, but it is probably somewhere in the vicinity of 1800 lawyers. I recall as many as 600 lawyers are sure the wash d. C. Area. I
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