threat and response and to present to us is michael from the department of technology and our own bijon for emergency management. take it away. >> thank you mary ellen for giving us space and time to talk about the newest support function 18. it has definite joined the ranks of other likely disasters so the city can be expected to withstand and respond to cyber security and cyber emergencies have affected recently many of the neighboring jurisdictions, union city, and of course you probably heard about that recent emergency that has been declared and cities of pensacola, new orleans, and the latest one is new orleans. we seen the disasters affect both the tra decisional operations of the city and public safety agencies, which needs significant response from all of the agencies together because the most likely scenario is that no one will be untouched. to help the city prepare we started the work in june with all the city departments to create the support 18 function and our first work is to define what is an emergency, how do we speak to the emergency and what's the normal operation. th