Vaccine for use by all adults in the 27 country block the u. Has also agreed to control exports of that scenes from the blog arguing it needed to do so to ensure its own supply lines follows a growing dispute between the e. U. And the company about a supply shortage its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the carriage positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to you and a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. We now have 3 vaccines that have been developed and recommended for purple approval against a disease that we did not know one year ago. Drug from johnson and johnson is expected to apply for merges use authorization for its vaccine in the United States next week it says its single dose japp appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cave 19 the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell must pay com
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.
Remember what you put but many of you focused on what historians would call the American Revolutionary era rather than the colonial era writ large. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues like taxation without representation, other founders and historical highlights and the imperial crisis in the war all popped up. A few mentioned paces, historic james town, plymouth plantation. A few mentioned slavery. What i thought was interesting was because it was because of either the 1619 project and the summer black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or m Indigenous People by name. No one mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less west of the rockies or the west coast. Technically speaking this course runs from before contact of europeans with Indigenous People in the 15th century to 1763, the end of the 7 years war, french and indian war in what is now the territory called the United Stat
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
Driven apart. How can you help us navigate the and charter waters of the post . I ask misha dollar professor in Wireless Communications at Kings College London Mission dollar professor in Wireless Communications and kids college london. Great to have you with us. All right, so much to do 3 g. 4 g. I mean, i dont remember any of them creating such a sensation as 5 g. Networks and they say that 5 g. Is truly a Game Changing set up in the quality of connection. Why is it so, i mean, with that grates to speed and upwards to really be later before. Why now, why, why such fuzz . Yes, that is a good question youre raising and then its, its really, its really curious to see of consumers will react really to the speed improvement of 5 g. Because you know, if we go on with a generation from 2 g. To 5 g. Every time we improve the download speed and the upload speed by a factor of 10, sometimes 100, which is really great. But what consumers care that they can download. Now it, you know, and it fli