i speak to chris krebs who is his boss on occasion and very important people in the department of homeland security. they are clearly taking this seriously and because of that we are getting very important services very quick way. even the full on-site two-week assessment that they do of your entire system now any state that wants to have one of those duncan have been done before the middle of april. that's well in advance of many of the primaries that are going to happen in the cycle and certainly in advance of the general election. we are really pleased with the services from homeland security. >> we had a similar experience in colorado which is the ability to work with the department of homeland security. last year a few states have a statewide election going on last year so we got a lot of direct attention from dhs. we have them come down for in person assessments. we actually had people on the ground on election day cybersecurity folks from dhs with our cyber focus on election day or the lead-up to so the services they provide to me we had a big focus on cybersecurity during the trump

chairman. >> let me ask chris krebs to step up to the plate here. my guess is you were itching to say something. >> how could you tell? >> talk about your private sector background and your perspective of the name -- how important the name change is. take a look at that, not that big a deal. talk about that, and then the operational. >> ma'am, three quick things. i did come out of the private sector to join the administration in march from microsoft. what you're asking, and you're citing back to the csi report, csis report, this is the nppd re-org. the linkages of the too, physical security and cybersecurity, that's how it's going in industry. they're inextricably linked. there's the logical, digital side of security, when you look at how organizations manage risk, they have to look across an entire enterprise. what is our physical risk, what is our cybersecurity risk? and they're merging, particularly when you think about things like internet of things, industrial control systems. so it's important that we keep them together because what i need to

i speak to chris krebs who's his boss on occasion and very important people in the department of homeland security. they clearly are taking this incredibly seriously. and because of that, we're getting very important services very quickly. so even the full on-site two-week sthaextss thassessment doff your entire system, now any state that wants to have one of them done can have them done before the middle of april. that's well in advance of many of the primaries that are going to happen in this cycle and certainly in advance of the general election. so we're really pleased with the services we're receiving from homeland security and from the eac who's done an amazing job partnering as well. >> i think in virginia we had a very similar experience to colorado, which is the ability to work with department of homeland security and eac was just phenomenal. last year we're one of the few states to have a statewide election going on last year. and so they actually -- we got a lot of direct attention from dhs and the staff dhs. we had them come down for in-person assessments to richmond. we actua