Mike rogers said we havent seen the terrorist attack that we havent talked about it for 15 years now. Theres lots of reasons for that. But theres a lot of vulnerabilities, and actually have a major impact not in the u. S. But also around the world for not finishing touches for the United States and the private sector is part of that. You know, in dod my job is to worry about the big cyberattack him cyberattack, but i also worry sometimes when they do things that impact the centers of gravity for the u. S. , which is the i. T. Industry in Silicon Valley and cybersecurity we need to think a lot about that. It makes it even harder because you want to make sure you are not hurting the economy and one of the Great Centers of gravity. Okay, thank you so much eric, john and chris. We will have our next panel soon. [applause] thinks anna and thanks to the department of defense, carla and the department of defense birthday. I want to encourage weve had great comments and questions coming off tw
Victim is or suspected victim is isolated and then making that phone call is really huge. In the long term before we started, before this virus hit, we were doing these water and sanitation activities with the government. And we were successful in working with over 350 communities on proper sanitation and proper hygiene. And that effort was incredibly successful. In all 350 communities which are some of the hardest hit counties, none of them have been effected by ebola. It really goes to show that if you make that long term investment, if you prepare the communities before it hits they have a huge it has a huge impact and prevents that from happening. I only wish we were able to hit all the communities in liberia before we were able before the virus hit. I wanted to ask if you would expand a little more. I understand it was something you said 70 of the transmissions were due to contact with people who had passed away. How long is a body contagious . My colleague was asking about the ro
Irrigated lawns, and we had a deer herd living in downtown boulder. When the lions moved in, they were in the open space, then they discovered there was deer in town. In the lions discovered they could eat dogs and cats. That is food for them. So the lions were learning, and they have learned, that this is where they will find food. Yes, there is food up there, too, there is lots to eat in town. This is a retreat, beautifuly an a place for enrichment, enlightenment, and coming together. The people who were intended to be the audience were really what we would call the middle class. The programs were very similar. A combination of speakers of the day, also a variety of both what we might consider highbrow and lowbrow entertainment opera, classical music, and probably what wed be considered fulfill of that day. Watch all of our events from boulder on book tv, and also American History tv on cspan 3. Next, with the u. S. Is doing to prevent more cyberattacks. Then, Homeland Security jeh j
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Remarkable, a coming together of all of these federal agencies working seamlessly together. To give you an example, when we have the denial of service attacks that were hitting our financial institutions, we were was working to these were bot nets. The fbi was reaching out to their counterparts. There is a lot of noise out there. What we did, and this is unique. To state department decided do. I was thought it was a bad thing. You can have a positive, where you say i need your help on something, i want you to elevate this. For about 20 countries, we said, this is serious. We want your help. We want to build a cooperative framework to deal with these threats. That has been part of our mission, working with the other agencies. More and more countries are taking this seriously. Is not just a technical issue. That is another transformation. , you would to go in person, youlk to a are the tech, you deal with it. Now, people understand it is a National Security issue. Human rights issue, for