Viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we need to be able to get ahead of the curve. Our conference is titled securing our future, and it is meant to be a strategic set of issues that looks across our various portfolio issues. Let me ask everyone to please put their phones in quiet mode and, when you do ha
When a cyber attack rises to level of warfare. Would require policymakers to consider the ways in which can the damage from a cyber attack to a conventional attack. It would require the definition in its law of war manual read more at the hill. Com. Back up on the hill today capitol hill Coverage Today of the centers for medicare and Medicaid Services and how her implementing new rules for physicians payments under medicar the the acting director would testify and our live coverage starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan 3. More now from this conference on National Security and counter the the department of Homeland Security talks about deputy secretary talks about efforts to increase Cyber Security threat information sharing between government and private sectors. And public and private sectors talk about what they are doing to encourage cooperation in combatting cyber threats. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for tak
Share i sharing information to deal with Cyber Security threats. Its two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning, and if i can welcome everyone to the campus at George Washington university, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules. Let me also welcome our cspan viewers this morning. My name is frank salufo. I direct your center for im really excite d for what wil be a rich and long day covering a whole host of issues that our center zeros in on ranging from counterterrorism to Homeland Security to cyber to obviously the integration between federal, state, and local and obviously with the integration between the public and the private sector as well as some of the international issues. Couldnt think of a better time to host this than sunday was the fifth year of our successful raid of Osama Bin Laden in abbottabad in pakistan and obviously serves as a good time to sort of take stock in terms of where we are, how the threat has changed and what sorts of capabilities and capacities we n
We recognize, we cant do it alone. This goes to the staffing issues. Theres going to be in National Guard component. Theres going to be another sector component to it. The dhs component to it. A Law Enforcement component so bringing the whole Community Together for response to Cyber Threats is a great lesson out of the ukraine. Two things i wanted to put a fine point on. One, the physical cyber convergence, the attack surface growing exponentially. When we Start Talking about the internet of things and the internet of everything, making security into the design of architecture becomes that much more important. Secure coding and the like. And i might note that one of the greatest deterrence and ive been an outspoken critic that we havent really articulated a cyber deterrence strategy and i think we in essence blame the victim. We blame entities rather than penalize and put pain and cost on the perpetrator but thats a longer conversation but maybe one of the best deterrence is the abilit
Cyber security is becoming big business. Here s why
Illustration by Raj Verma
Grocery is a boring, low-margin business. But that did not prevent cyber criminals from stealing data of 20 million customers of online grocer BigBasket and selling it for a staggering $40,000 or nearly Rs 30 lakh on the dark web. And that too non-financial data such as name, email ID, PIN, contact number, address, date of birth, location, IP address.
BigBasket had thankfully not stored customers financial data such as debit/credit card details. But companies and their customers are not always so fortunate. In 2016, security of close to 3.2 million debit cards issued by major banks, including SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and Axis Bank, among others, was compromised. The breach, caused by a malware on an ATM network, resulted in not just financial loss to consumers and banks but also dented people s trust in digital banking.