all month, we are featuring our studentcam winners. in the competition for mineral and high school students. this year, and told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. our second prize middle school winner is a seventh grader from miami, florida. believes cyber

security is an urgent issue in her documentary entitled "cyber security: the safety of our nation." take a look. >> we all use technology every day as an important part of our lives. don't you love searching the web and contacting friends? what about when things are off-line? while situations like these have simple fixes, were serious issues can be the result of cyber attacks. the site security of our nation is the most important and urgent issue that needs to be addressed by the white house in the future. let us start at the beginning. what happens in a cyber attack? there are different techniques used. some are even as simple as sending messages via text, or email. .his is known as phishing

-- willis form of have this worm of hacking involves simple techniques, it has become harder to detect. but this is not the only way hackers can cause mayhem. more technologically refined software and techniques have been developed to destroy firewalls and rob governments. service, numerous requests are sent to a single thatn or a computer overwhelms the system causing it to break down or become temporarily unavailable. the weaker the firewall of a computer, the fewer number of requests needed to break down the firewall. this kind of attack is the same but on a much larger scale. it usually requires hundreds of computers sending a request causing the same short of test -- shut down. toware can also be used

attack firewalls and steal information. >> that is one of our main concerns, making sure that we are securing the data for our customers. both external and internal. there is also the risk of protecting the data from employees that should not have access to it or if an employee should decide to do something malicious. 15, 750 one attacks on security or reported. december,ly, between 2015 until 2016, 51% of american adults were reported to of experience some breach in their security. this is a big number. especially considering when most breaches of security are not reported. >> we have had damage from scammers off-line increasing the cost of hosting a site. there are many potential consequences from poor website security.

>> businesses are impacted. because customers cannot make transactions when their way of doing so is unbelievable. >> businesses today are relying heavily on their online presence for not only their brand image but also for attracting business. if something happens to compromise that online presence, it can impact the bottom line of the company as well as their professional appearance to those searching for them. >> on a larger scale, u.s. government information and plans could be stolen or altered. you think about cyber security, you have to think about the department of defense. what if someone hacked the cia or the nsa or the department of defense or got control of missiles and launched them. that is the real fear. are looking out into the crystal ball coming years from

now. destroy software and have destructive results against the government. type of cyber attack takes place, the american people will always be affected. either through phishing or through federal weakness. the personal information and identities of private individuals at risk. it is an interesting phenomenon. what they are doing is multiplying what they call points of interaction. we are talking about the point of interaction being anywhere. it increases the number of places where you put your information. if that channel is not secure, it could increase the ability to be attacked. >> major breaches in cyber

security has been traced that to foreign countries including russia and china. these countries have been formally accused for major cyber attacks against the u.s. >> you can make your network harder to attack but you cannot make it on hakuba. you cannot protect networks. particularly determined state opponents. they will always get him. >> what is being done to protect the cyber security of the united states. in aent obama participated security plan. dollarsing millions of to protect cyber security. on a smaller level, many computers have software that can detect viruses and attacks. many i.t. and security companies have devices that can do tech harmful code and detect unlawful activity.

you still never know what may happen because of the unpredictability of serious attacks. >> that is why we need to project strength in our cyber offense and defense capabilities. we must ensure strong and sound cyber security. while protecting our nation's freedoms and civil liberties. >> is it enough to protect americans ever security at all levels>? ? shouldn't we be prepared enough to not have to deal with these in the first place? while many people can help in their own way, it is essentially the job of the government to protect the nation as a whole. the cyber security of the u.s. should be strong enough to prevent cyber attacks and the american people should be protected by the government against the cyber attacks. challenge to washington is to

protect u.s. citizens against cyber attacks. cyber security is the most urgent issue that needs to be addressed in 2017 and beyond. >> to see all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year's competition, visit studentcam.org. coming up on c-span this morning, washington journal, live. and then the house ways and means committee considering legislation that would require the treasury secretary to disclose president trump's tax returns and other financial information. later, fbi director james comey talks about data encryption and priorities for his agent. -- for his agency. >> coming up on today's washington journal, we will talk to a member of the "got your six." and then david, and immigration and reason magazine contributor

talks about challenges of building a wall. contributingn, a editor for wired magazine discusses his article, "can you turn a terrorist back to a citizen? host: good morning. it is saturday, april 1, 2017. a3-hour washington journal i had which will discuss veterans issues, president trump's border wall, and the u.s.. congress that were scheduled to go in effect later this year. with a move that has earned a sharp backlash from the -- from democrats accused of selling the privacy of americans to internet providers. we