State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of
With the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back, first of all, from the break. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being willing to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic du jour, i would say, for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community, dealing with election cybersecurity and securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election, where we saw nation state actors targeting state level election systems or registration systems as well as vendors in a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security. So on this panel today, i hope we can delve into some of those issues, talk about the operating environment that Election Officials are in today, share the expertise that you all have, your experiences, and most importantly, what step
Because a truism in Information Technology, which goes all the way back to the ibm main frames and bell labs worked with the government in world war ii is the first user of Information Technology and most advanced user of Information Technology is going to be the defense establishment in the u. S. Government. And i use defense in the broadest term. Im talking about anything associated with defense. So theyre first guys in, and when we build qwest, or as we went public with what we were building, before we had laid more than a thousand miles of cable, we did 26,000 in the u. S. We were already engaged or approached to participate. So what was the you were asked to chair this committee called the Network Reliability and interoperability council. Explain what that really was trying to accomplish. There was really two federal advisory committees of substance for the Technology Industry. The Technology Industry included not just the telecoms, it included microsoft and ciscos the people you
Happens. I wish i were. But i wont be around when it happens. Do i see any hope . Yes. And i list that. I will just give awe few examples that have give you a few examples that caught the attention of the press. If you live in saudi arabia, you grow up saudi arabia you must have heard of this man kashkari who starts to tweet of his doubts of the prophet. Because of his technology he is able to share not only with saudis but anyone who can read and write and has access to the internet in the islamic word what his doubts are. That is new, revolutionary. The internet is one, the internet is to islam, what the Printing Press was to the christian reformation. Number two, there is an urban elite that has you know, if youre a in tunisia today, and your source of income was because of tourism museums, the beaches, everything, you have a vested interest in immediate and dire to keep up the tourist industry. All across what you see in the middle east is an urban elite that is muslim, may be piou