cisa serves two roles. one is the national coordinators. we look at resilience across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors for both cyber and physical which makes us unique on the global stage of being a single agency looking at physical and cyber security. and in our spare time we are america cyber defense agency, which is itself a massive undertaking as we look at helping protect vertical infrastructure and support our state and local and tribal territorial partners, the sector and industry partners, and the federal civilian executive branch and how do we provide protection. our founding principles are based on partnerships there is no federal solution to this pick this is a national and international solution so our ability to work closely with partners in the united states and globally are critical to our collective success and that's been essentially our guiding principle and all of engagements in the cyber arena and physical arena? >> fantastic. and tying off of the partnership and collaboration, maybe you could discuss how the orga

that's an important role that cisa plays and cisa is in a position to make it clear with authoritative sources for firsthand information about what's going on with the election security if you're hearing something to go with problems at local electioni'm pleased that cisa is continuing its work to continue the work and respond effectively to that, and i think that's really an important piece of what cisa does. >> any other panelists have thoughts on this? >> i really support the job jenny did at cisa and i'll stay away from talking publicly because this information screwed up disinformation and rolled out of a bad way and didn't brief congress and particularly the opposite party what they were doing on politically sensitive and shall nominated someone to run it that was really not bipartisan and they screwed it up and she should stay away. right now cisa needs credibility with both parties and keep doing the great job they're doing on reinforcing state and local election authorities and keep the election secure and i'll tell you, the elections will be secure and i agree completely with

it also acknowledges cisa as the national coordinator, meaning that cisa is responsible for leading the effort across the interagency to help protect our critical infrastructure, but that there are sector-risk management agencies that no know particular sectors well because they are the experts. so think the department of energy for the energy sector, think epa for the water sector, think cisa for the communication sector. each agency is the daily interface with those sectors and helps them conduct risk assessments, risk management plans. but overall, cisa and the secretary puts out guidance for how we think about risk and the overall cross-sector risk management plan. it is really, i think, an important evolution in our policy. there are a number, over a dozen implementation items that are driving towards how we increase the partnership -- improve the partnership to include thinking about the need to drive minimum security standards across all sectors because of the complex environment that we are living in right now and this knowledge that a voluntary partnership, we need to evolve th

host: the agency is cisa, and jen

we work a lot with cisa and nsa. we share intel. we share incidents, what we see, what we learn from these incidents. we co-batch joint cybersecurity advisory. there is the technical collaboration behind the scene where our teams and cisa and others come together to come up with the next innovation in cyber defense. it is not just government and government, we also leverage industry contacts south of the border. the partnership is multifaceted. in some cases i would say extremely sensitive intel all the way up to collaborating on technology development and new types of how to defend our communities. cindy: thank you. nitin, did you want to add to that at all? nitin: we have a great operational relationship for we do a lot of technical exchanges. we have a lot of liaisons here. being able to have that deep technical exchange of information. we have the strategic side as well. we are talking with industry partners that work across the border. we do try to work not just operationally, but strategically that allows our partners to be mo

i do not want cisa dragged into that because cisa has to exist after this election cycle.s junk i couldn't used to say at 5 billion-dollar to agencies currently a three billion-dollar agency. this administration brought it up with the help of congress. both parties. brought up from $1.5 billion agency. we need for eight litany of reasons one is election security. just a personal beef, stay away from disinformation talk in public. it makes you catch heat rounds from conservatives and is not necessary. oxo pushed back a little bit from have a longer debate on another day about the board.rmation governance i think that has been mischaracterized. will have a longer debate on that. i do think it is critically important, as i said, because cisa the state and local election officials have said we are ill-equipped to deal the information warfare from our adversaries and others. and if cisa is not helping to train state and local election officials for how to deal with this threat, whoea is? i get they should not be up there trying to talk about every lie that any politician tells.

i want you to reflect on your time back at cisa, between 2018, 2020, what do you think are some of the biggest lessons learned or some of the things that you maybe we still need to be focused on, just some of your reflections between then and now and where we are. >> i think the biggest lesson for us in the intelligence community was that it was very different time in 2016, 2017 and that we in the intelligence community looked to the part of the whole of government solution, but we realized it wasn't really the critical infrastructure security that was so important in that and ensuing elections since that time, it really was about ensuring that we had an understanding that the -- our foreign adversaries were not really focused on damaging the critical infrastructure. it was more of a how is social media being used to help influence what it is that is taking place, so it became not a whole of government solution that i think we needed to take but a whole of society approach that we needed to take. so you will hear from incredibly experts like my colleague, former colleague matt masterso

we work with cisa on a daily basis. we are plain colder it jc d.c.and working hand-in-hand across the us government and other friendly governments every single day. the way that we succeed in my mind is public and private partnership. we need to share and work off the same sheet of music. we track over 250 threat actors today that are coming from places like iran, russia, north korea but other countries that have not made it into the press, so to speak and a whole bevy of threat actors engaged in ransomewhere and data extortion operations, as well as hacktivists looking to hack . inform the government and your staffs going on with crowdstrike, being transparent so that they could know this one, was not cyber attack and two, but the impact was and what we are doing to remediate that. i think in the situation where there is cyber incident, the responsibility changes and support the government helping us understand the threat actors are, what they are after and how to stop them. it depends on the situation but i would reiterate private public partnershi

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cisa has done a good job over the last few years dealing with election security at a more broadly infrastructure security. >> we will come back just a moment, but i want to bring ivana into the conversation. speaking of election security at this federal focus level 2016 was the year he got put on the map with the russian interference campaign. can you talk about how russia has change strategies for the u.s. and how they have taken that playbook and gone global on that? >> definitely. whether we like to admit this or not, we are in an information war with russia because of the kremlin openly claims that. some people may feel uncomfortable talking about and using the word information war, because then you have to do something about that. that is why some people may feel more comfortable talking about information competition. for the russian ministry of defense, information is a weapon. they openly said that, and all you have to do is to read their military journals, read through the ministry of defense to see how their analysts perceive information warfare. let me tell you two ugly truths. number

another organization that anne helped stand up, the nsa cybersecurity collaboration center, as well as cisahow that is valuable information that back in my day, it was a one-way. just give me the information and go away. now that partnership has strengthened out of necessity. it used to be where the private sector would develop capabilities based on government requirements, ship them off to the government and then wait for feedback. in cyberspace, it is clear to us and to the federal government that we will not be as successful as we need to beat without our private sector partners who are on the front lines every day dealing with the same adversaries that the federal government is dealing with. so that's is a big change. but it is progress. on the realistic optimist side, i remain very concerned about how we can support our state and local and tribal territorial entities, they are dealing with the same adversaries. when i was growing up and in uniform, most of the time it was people in uniform that were defending america against nation-state actors. their contribution to national defense w

at the nceoe, a partnership with 40 organizations ing nsa and cisa working together to help with thisw qp standard. initiatives we're working on looking at testing technologies that can automatically detect vulnerability photography within and organization as well as develop guidance how to do risk assessment to know what photography to switch out first. prioritize. also doing interopera act of these new pq standards with existing internet protocol standards to help determine the road map for any potential updates that might need to be made to kind of international standard, and while we don't know exactly when a quantum computer may arrive on the scene and threaten our encryption, we are encouraging organizations to start making progress towards this migration now. i know it's really difficult to focus on cybersecurity challenges that are in the future, when we have so many we're dealing with today, but there are steps every organization can such as to determine accurate and complete inventory, photography that you're leveraging within your organization. start having conversations wi

quite some time is the former director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, or cisas krebs. he had that position in the trump administration. so, chris, thanks for being here. so given the warnings about more fake election videos on the way, do you think the u.s. is well equipped to handle all of this? with the election just four days out? >> so this is a partnership between the private sector and the federal government you have researchers at organizations, companies like microsoft as well as the national security agency that are on the lookout for identifying and tracking these things and then making the reports to for this, in this case, georgia it's a lot harder, though to disrupt, to stop them some of the best tools we have right now are just calling them out, saying what it is, getting information out to the american people, letting them know they're being taken advantage of. like when secretary of state raffensperger sent that tweet out, that was that was based on information of the that he received yes. and then, as you saw today the director of national inte

arguing with each other or starting these you know, wild conspiracy theories we've got some reports from cisa and other dhs you know, they've sent us some notices and just things to expect. >> and so we're fully prepared. we have been we already had a ddos attack, 420,000 pings came to our website that would be on monday, october 14th. and we very quickly saw what it was and quickly you know, disengaged. we added a little, you know, interface that said, i am a human. i am not a robot. and they had to press that. and that got rid of all those bots that were pinging us. but the thing is, we were expecting it. we prepared for it. but you can never prepare enough because it seems like they never sleep. they got very clever minds and they have they're very devious people just trying to upset us. yeah they probably don't like us supporting ukraine. and you know they just want to take a shot at us, right and we can't let them. >> yeah, no, i am, i am curious when you when you reach out to twitter do you feel like they're they're listening. i mean, i understand once a video is out there it is very ha

>> we do have a report to cisa right now and we will work with them to get some guidance on how to treat this as far as public disclosure is concerned so that should be surfacing in several hours but the bottom line is this. whenever we do see something, we get it out there. we talk about it and make sure to get in front of it as much as possible. i think what most people don't understand is the root of the vast majority of all the lies and misinformation is foreign enemies and russia, china and iran and they want us to distrust one another or hate one another as americans and they know they can't defeat us economically or militarily but the only way they can do it is to turn us against one another. we have plenty of examples of this coming from the foreign adversaries and we continue to fight against them to protect our own democracy. >> all right. we will look for that official announcement i guess from your folks later today and we will monitor that and secretary of state, we are tight on time because we have a rally coming up in some guests coming on that i want to squeeze in but tha

working to make sure the integrity of the environment is maintained and then finally partner with the cisa security advisory council to make sure that we're coordinating with other actors to make sure that we're doing everything to up the game, if you will, on the technology behind the election. >> certainly, and sis yo, cyber security in the u.s. has been trying to get ahead of the game, well in-- and. >> and not that we want to talk about more polls, but 16 of the countries that are voting this year and that resulted that 85% of the citizens were concerned about the impacts of ai, misinformation and 87% believe their country's kind of election and electoral process had been negatively affected by it and wanted private and government, particularly government to do something to regulate social media and that was sort of singled out. i think an example that you gave, and also considering that ai and generative ai is moving so fast that it's almost at this moment impossible to regulate because you'll just regulate something that's become a historical artifact by the time you go through the p

host: that was jen easterly, director of cisa. good morning. caller: good morning. i am speaking directly to the people who say they are voting for trump because they had more money in their pockets when he was president. my question is -- is that more important than the future when you might need medicare and social security? 86 years old, i depend on social security and medicare. project 2025 has changes or talks about changes to social security, medicaid, and medicare. host: mary? there you are. keep going, mary, we can hear you now. caller: trump says he's not involved in project 2025 and he doesn't know anything about it. however, jd vance wrote the forward to a book by the same person who was behind project 2020 five. 18 out of 40 people who worked on project 2025 worked for trump. my question is, will you need social security and medicare when you get older? don't think about what you had in your pocket book in 2016 or up to 2020. think about the future. i would also like to make a comment to the man who called about not supporting harris because of what's go

. >> jen easterly of cisa, thank you so much for joining us.eciate all of your words about what's going to happen during this election and how to keep it safe, the confidence we should have in our ballots as well. we will be right back. we will be right back. -bye honey. -(groans) morning breath, huh. dr. garcia? wooo. ♪♪ that's millions of bacteria growing overnight. crest pro-health helps prevent oral health issues before they start. i'm so much fresher. crest. >>> every campaign will tell you every vote counts, and in battleground pennsylvania and nevada, some activists are reaching out to people in jail, some of who may not know they are eligible to vote. nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor has more from inside pennsylvania's allegheny county jail. >>> with just days to go until election day, these workers are organizing the ballots of an often forgotten voting bloc, incarcerated americans. the allegheny county jail in pittsburgh is one of a number of correctional facilities making sure people behind bars get the opportunity