but i am concerned about a cyberattack. are there similar plans in place for industry and for state and local government? will those redundancies provide the same types of protection? most recently i have been discussing this topic with constituents in my district, asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a prolonged period of time. honestly, most of them don't know because we don't know what to plan for. we have brought together the right people here to tell us today. we are also going to discuss what preparedness looks like, best practices, and how we can achieve a greater level of readiness all the way down to the local mayors and township supervisors. i'm encouraged to hear all the industry talk about an all-hazards approach and focusing on mitigating the greatest risks. but i think there are some unique characteristics of the cyberthreat that require specific planning guidelines. i know we cannot gold-plate the system, but given the independency of electricity with our daily lives, it is cr

yet i find them woefully underprepared for cyberattacks. some of them are primary metered at the point of entrance so you may have a public utility providing the generating capacity. they do the distribution. so as we look at this, what kind of turf war did we get in between dod and d.o.e. with regards to being ready for a cyberattack that would have national security implications? >> thank you, congressman, for that question. when we deal with any sort of event, we're going to act as a whole government. so whether it's -- >> but who is in charge? here's the problem. and i have dealt with a number of agencies. we get fema that comes in and we get local emergency management responses. and what you have is you have different people saying different things. so with regards to national security, who is in charge of the power grid? is it d.o.e. or is it dod? >> the owners and operators are ultimately in charge of the power grid. the support to the power grid is going to come both from d.o.e. with respect to working with the owners and operators

yet i find them woefully underprepared for cyberattacks. some of them are primary metered at the point of entrance so you may have a public utility providing the generating capacity. they do the distribution. so as we look at this, what kind of turf war did we get in between dod and d.o.e. with regards to being ready for a cyberattack that would have national security implications? >> thank you, congressman, for that question. when we deal with any sort of event, we're going to act as a whole government. so whether it's -- >> but who is in charge? here's the problem. and i have dealt with a number of agencies. we get fema that comes in and we get local emergency management responses. and what you have is you have different people saying different things. so with regards to national security, who is in charge of the power grid? is it d.o.e. or is it dod? >> the owners and operators are ultimately in charge of the power grid. the support to the power grid is going to come both from d.o.e. with respect to working with the owners and operators

if we do not prepare for a defense against cyberattacks, the future of humanity is in jeopardy.n its defense -- and its defense will require a comprehensive understanding from tech industry and world leaders, including our next american president. technology companies introduce new products and platforms as the next big thing, but little attention is given to cyberwarfare. it's the next big problem. >> to watch all the prize winning documentaries in this year's student cam competition, isit studentcam.org. >> here's a live look in at pennsylvania state university in state college, pennsylvania. about 20 minutes away from a bernie sanders rally tonight. the crowd a moment ago doing the wave as they get ready for that. we have live coverage of the rally right here on c-span at 7:00. coming up at 9:00 tonight, we'll have coverage of the new york primary results coming in after the polls close at 9:00. we'll be live here on c-span with candidate speeches and keep you up to date on the goings on in new york. comeing in to today's new york primaries, democratic presidential candidate

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but i am concerned about a cyberattack. are their similar plans in place for industry and state and local government? will those redundancies provide the same types of protections .. best practiceticses, how we can achieve a greater level of readiness all the way down to the local mayors and township supervisors. i'm encouraged to hear all industry talk about all hazards approach and focusing on mitigating the greatest risks. but i think there are some unique characteristics of the cyber threat that requires specific planning guidelines. i know we can not gold plate the system but given the indepencesy of electricity with our daily lives it is crucial we understand the risks and be prepared for likely consequences possible from the failure of that system. i look forward to this conversation today, starting with our witnesses and i thank you all for being here. i now call on ranking member mr. defazio, the chairman for his comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, you certainly laid out well the potential threats o

>> in the event that there was a cyberattack that took down the grid, we would be affected by that. if penelex was affected and taken down, we would also be without power. >> mr. spence, whoever, there was a newspaper article yesterday that indicated that the fbi and the department of homeland security had machine warning the power industry over the last month about a potential cyberattack. what role as the electricity information sharing and analysis center, what role might they play in distributing this kind of information? >> thank you, congressman. that was exactly what the information sharing analysis center does. we -- in fact, i'm not aware of that particular one. we do dozens of these a day. we get information, post it to industry, have several thousand participants in industry who receive those notices every day. >> i yield back, mr. chairman. thank you. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows. >> mr. cauley, did i hear you correctly, did you say in the event of a cyberattack the longest period of time that people would be without power is an hour? is that what you said? >> tha

at clinton township middle school, wants president of candidates to discuss cyber warfare and cyberattacks. his video is titled "cyberwarfare: the next big problem." gentlemen.nd ableu are not going to be to insult the greatest presidency. >> the affordable care act. >> the candidate. >> for president. >> of the united states. >> we are going to. >> earn your vote. >> to make our country great again. the 2016 election is coming up fast. candidates are rising and falling quickly. their platforms mainly concentrate on social and economic issues, but none of them have mentioned what could be the biggest issue ever as a country. ♪ >> everyone agrees, computers have made our lives easier and we are more connected as a human race than ever before. computers are organizing our lives, connecting the world and even saving lives. however, are dependence on technology is not without risks. since the invention of computers, sump people have used them maliciously. the problems of gotten so bad there is a growing demand for specialists in the field of cyber protection and defense. >> there are many diff

as a result, china has asserted behavior, cyberattacks, economic espionage, and theft, militarization of one of the most important waterways, and the closing of regional allies and partners. the middle east is descending into chaos, but for the past seven years, president obama has sought to scale back america's involvement in and commitment to the middle east. he has tried to convince us the unfolding crisis in the middle east is simply a local problem, that our nation's core interests are not truly threatened, that the consequence of regional , hundreds of thousands dead in syria, sectarian strikes in iraq, all of these can be mitigated and contains. but the crisis in the middle east has not been contained. it has reached the streets of paris, brussels, and san bernardino. it has produced a refugee crisis that has destabilized europe and divided the west. it has given vladimir putin an opportunity to reassert russia as a global power through intervention in syria. foes andd america's allies to question our commitment. no more is this clearer than in the war against isil. we have ach

it examines the potential for cyberattacks, it looks at what can happen, how vulnerable the system isnd the degree to which electric companies are prepared. the notion that you the electric company. of there was a bill passed last year in the senate after years of rancor. after they have sanitized it. theuncer: watch communicator's monday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2. coming up next, a panel discussion titled "worst it discussesr." some of the least forgotten presidents in history. first they

senator graham: do they have any rules engagement that would identify what a cyberattack is? admiral rogers: they're probably in the same arena we are, still trying to work our way through that. senator graham: when do you think we'll arrive at that conclusion to senator king's question? admiral rogers: boy, i don't graham: whatenator is the biggest impediment to us getting us there? is it congress? is it the dod? admiral rogers: no. it's as much in some ways as -- again, this is just mike rogers opinion. it as is much in some ways, from my perspective, as -- well, this just an intellectual exercise. this is something we can afford to push down... senator graham: the department of homeland security is responsibly basically for protecting us in the financial service power arena, our civilian targets. admiral rogers: sir. senator graham: you're responsible for protect the military infrastructure -- admiral rogers: and we provide support to that commercial infrastructure -- senator graham: that's right. admiral rogers: if requested. senator graham: but you're also responsible fo

>> an actual cyberattack rather than cyber espionage. >> on what? >> strategically, hypothetically in this situation, not energy but another critical infrastructure sector, say transportation. >> if i knew the answer to that -- one thing that is true about our economy, it is not centralized so if you shut down the subway system in new york it doesn't much affect what goes on in washington or san francisco. some countries shut down transportation like tokyo, you really mess things up, but electrical power, they are expending the smart grid which is like stupid grid for cyberpurposes, it doesn't take up the entire country. in some ways, you know about data. everything is hooked up to computer networks and this is done for rational reasons, it is cheaper, more economy of scale, you have everything monitored by sensors and it all makes perfect sense. i can't remember what the initial stands for but everything is controlled by computer networks. they didn't shut down the centrifuges, they manipulated the control devices governing how fast the centrifuges

admiral rogers, in your prepared statement, you mentioned the cyberattack on ukraine's power grid and you also note that you have seen cyber actor s for mor than one nation exploring the nature of our network's krits call infrastructure. do you believe our national teams possess the necessary skills relating to industrial controls and systems to be able to stop or to recover from an attack on our power grid? >> we have the skills. the challenge for us at the moment is one of capacity. what i mean by that is in the two years i've been in command, i have yet to run into a situation where we didn't have the skill set to apply against the problem but the challenge at the moment -- because we're still in the midst of that build. if we had multiple events simultaneously, for example, that gets to be -- where we are right now, snap the chalk today, so to speak, capacity really is the greater concern to me than capability, if you will, if that makes sense. >> i understand your demands on the force to exceed that capacity. as you add those capabilities, how are you going to pry or titz the dut

to hospitals across the nation that the department of homeland security says to be on alert for cyberattacks. cyber thieves are using ransom ware. it gets access to hospital computers and encrypts the data that hackers demand a ransom to unlock the servers. since february at least 13 hospitals across the country have been hit including three in southern california. >> a major social media campaign launches tomorrow called don't erase india. it is an effort to preventy references -- prevent references from india and hinduism to be taken out of reference books. >> right here there is just a guy taking out his trash. >> these south bay teenagers don't like the way india and hindus are portrayed in junior high textbooks. they are worried that things could get worse. a group of south asian study scholars proposed 75 edits to the california public school history books for 6th and seventh graders. they are referring it to south asia and hinduism a religion of ancient india. >> there is an attempt to erase the contributions of indian history and civilization. >> i reached out to several callers and

. >>> the united states is reportedly launching cyberattacks against isis for the first time. the military cybercommand usually focuses on iran, russia, china and north korea where many cyberattacks against the u.s. originate. according to "the new york times," the new campaign is aimed at disrupting the islamic state's ability to spread its message, attract recruits and carry out operations. >>> president obama says he doesn't take north korea's latest offer seriously. after claiming its latest missile test was a great success, north korea offered to stop such tests if the u.s. stops its exercises military with south korea. at a news conference in germany, the president said north korea is going to "have to do better than that." >>> authorities in australia say they have thwarted a terror attack on the country's veterans day ceremony. the alleged terrorist is a a 16-year-old boy was arrested at his home in western sydney. no details of the alleged plot were released, but police say they believe the teen was acting alone and that he had been been on their radar for some time.

working on sites that are not our network at all, it .oesn't stop adversaries if they are launching cyberattacksh military grade kind of cyber systems against a commercial enterprise such as security teams need to go and be prepared for. that is where things like information sharing become critical. we are not just purely a commercial provider of talent, we are also a provider of that talent to the government. that makes us a target, nonetheless. jill: sounds almost like they are a target by association to some degree. did he talk at all about the strategy for combating that threat? amber: information sharing is probably the biggest strategy, and something that is a top priority between government and industry right now, lowering the barriers for information sharing. that occurs through legislation, bringing people together. you have the defense industrial base group continuing to expand. sharing threat signatures, known adversaries, that is probably the biggest trying to come back that right now, to bolster security for suspense -- four defense systems. they are really just trying to take a mor

to hospitals across the nation that the department of homeland security says to be on alert for cyberattacks. cyber thieves are using ransom ware. it gets access to hospital computers and encrypts the data that hackers demand a ransom to unlock the servers. since february at least 13 hospitals across the country have been hit including three in southern california. >> a major social media campaign launches tomorrow called don't erase india. it is an effort to preventy references -- prevent references from india and hinduism to be taken out of reference books. >> right here there is just a guy taking out his trash. >> these south bay teenagers don't like the way india and hindus are portrayed in junior high textbooks. they are worried that things could get worse. a group of south asian study scholars proposed 75 edits to the california public school history books for 6th and seventh graders. they are referring it to south asia and hinduism a religion of ancient india. >> there is an attempt to erase the contributions of indian history and civilization. >> i reached out to several callers and

they took it off line last week after it was hit with a cyberattack.he attack forced them to shutdown computers at 10 d.c. area hospitals amid fears of malware. now, the fbi is investigating the source of the attack. >>> the washington monument opened again tonight after being shutdown for two days because of a broken elevator. the monument, all 555 feet of it have been closed for repairs since friday. tonight, the park service says a faulty power supply was to blame for the recent break down. the second in just a week. visitors were not in elevators during the latest incident. everyone was able to get out safely down the stairs. >>> a passenger plane took off from brussels airport today. this was the first commercial night since the deadly attack that left 32 people dead and hundreds of others wounded. today's flight was one of 3 passenger nights taken off from greece, italy and portugal. the airport was closed for 12 days after the deadly bomb attack. today, amid cheers and a. [ applause ] the first plane took off without incident. >> this is a very

. >> speaking about said dangers of cyberattacks the non though law enforcement side of a response to the idea of the unbreakable encryption. so how do you square that? have you make those decisions about unbreakable i've place great faith andngenuy confidence in the tremendous creativity that we have in this country. and this is one case to be a partnership and i don't know what the answer is the company's to put a serious effort with research and a development in theat alternative methods to safeguard the private security people as well as ensuring that public security smith there are circumstances and it is impossible to break and it is ensuring? is that we were asking? and the history but there is no such thing.plicatio and with that technology. and so the question gets back. >> now we go next to the next question.g with the underground nuclear bomb test. talking about the hydrogen bomb. and some people suggested and those that were improvement to creating a hydrogen bomb. >> i can say that ben aspirational lee the current regime in north korea. >> but to be very determined to por

>> the fbi is warning thousands of new yorkers that isis-linked hackers have targeted them in a cyberattack. the i-team learned that the hackers stole the personal information of 3,000 just ordinary new yorkers. they then posted it online and they announced "we want them dead." one of the victims on that hit list spoke exclusively with the i-team. he says the fbi told him to be cautious and to call 911 immediately if he felt in any >> they were concerned. they felt that they should alert me. who am i? what am i doing on this list? >> the fbi says there is no specific threats of violence against those victims. >>> investigators now say engine problems caused a plane that took off from newark airport to make an emergency landing. united airlines flight 38 was headed to nebraska when the pilot was forced to land in cleveland 5:35 p.m. yesterday. here's a look at the plane after it landed. investigators say about an hour into the flight the engine made a noise, the plane dipped to the left. the pilot declared an emergency and steered that plane to the nearest airport. some passengers screamed.

. >>> new tonight, georgetown fallen victim to a cyberattack but they were not able to steal employee or student information. the attack happened last week but the university's firewall shut down its network to protect its system and private information. georgetown says the hack is not related to the attack against med star health system. georgetown's clinical partner. in a statement, the university said it takes the attack very seriously and is working to ensure its technology systems are as safe and as strong as they can be. >>> turning to the forecast now and we're getting done with the rain but we are not done with winter's last gasp in april. doug? >> you notice the wind out there right now continuing to blow those flags around. we're going to see the very cold conditions making their way in and that's what is happening right now. temperatures today got into the 60s. we'll be in the low to mid-50s during the day tomorrow. the rain that did move through is now continuing way up to the north and west. notice to the west, though, there is some snow back here. that's because of the c

i guess the type of cyberattacks that we're seeing and hearing about in classified settings, not directly related to the electric utility business, are very sophisticated. and so being able to come in, and so i assume, you know, going into a generated capacity. so let's say you've got a generator, and, you know, there's all kinds of controls and switches to make sure that you don't run into problems with the electrons. let's put it that way. so all of a sudden somebody coming in nefarious in not just turning a switch off, can scramble it in such a way that would create unbelievable damage, certainly from a standpoint of generated capacity, i mean i don't want to talk about it in an open forum like this. but i guess my concern, are you not having those kinds of conversations which are more than just turning the power switch off as happened in the ukraine, but really causing long-term damage either to generation capacity or transmission capacity? >> yes, congressman. i have the privilege of going to very similar highly classified briefings as well. i also have 35 years of experience working

as you know, one of the most wired countries in the world and also probably the first victim of cyberattack by a nation state. by russia. and i had the opportunity to visit the cyber center that's been accredited by nato. to hear them talk about how they think about cyber issues. and can you talk a little bit about how cybercom works with our nato allies. >> i was just in brussels in december and i, as u.s. cyber command, i addressed the north atlantic council. i was one of the member nations, i was asked to talk to the leadership of the alliance about implications of cyber and how lengthy and large, first to acknowledge that. how might the alliance work its way forward as we try to deal with the the cyber arena. cyber command, i try to partner with the alliance as a whole as well as specific member nations on specific issues within the alliance. what i've suggested to nato is i think the real key is you got to get the defensive house together number one. and then secondly -- >> explain a little more what you mean when you say that. >> much like we've seen on the u.s. side, i've said look,

particular relevance to our grid on december 23, 2015, it was a cyberattack in the ukraine which was launched against three distribution companies and in which the perpetrators gained control of the three distribution companies and were able to put out the lights for 225,000 customers for up to six hours. a team from the u.s. went to investigate that incident in the ukraine, including a member of the nerc staff. the cyber threats are real but i think we're very different situation in the ukraine as compared to what we had in the united states in north america. security controls in north america are very different. we are the only industry with mandatory and enforceable reliability standards affecting physical and cybersecurity. we are currently in the fifth generation of our cybersecurity standards. they are risk-based standards based on nist type controls. they are adaptable. we have a very robust compliance monitoring and enforcement program. system operators use modern controlled to ensure the security of the system including separation of corporate and business systems from contr

after that a senate hearing on efforts to protect taxpayers and the irs from cyberattacks. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> saturday, april 20th, c-span presents the white house correspondents dinner, an event that typically includes prepared remarks by the president of the united states. coming up in a few minutes we will show you the last white house correspondents dinner speeches from presidents reagan, clinton.'ss and first we discussed the steventon event with thomma. how long have you been attending these events? how have they changed? steve: i think i have been going the last 28, maybe 30 years. i have been going since reagan. host: how have they changed? steve: they have become more crowded. we have squeeze more tables into the same ballroom. it has gotten more hollywood and celebrities. always had them, that we have more. those of the biggest changes. bob: what about the length of the president's speeche

. >> and according to a new not feel protect the from a cyberattack at office. they don't think that company has emergency plan. steve: would you pay $400 for running shoes? they hit the market in the morning, first shoe with a mid sold made by a 3-d -- sole made by a lead to lead to 3-d printer, madebly by new balance. dari: say it ain't so. steve: a major theater chain wants to let people particular during the movies. then -- have you sign it yet. dari: i was watching espn this morning, saying a lot of people kobe rocking back and forth, this was anthem, there he is. steve: every thought that fle ea's steve: don't you hate it when you are sitting in a movie theater, when someone next to you starts texting, i hate it. dari: it does not bother me but it is just the light that is distracting. steve: it could be me. streaming the whole movie. dari: a theater chain is thinking about incouraging that. jessica explaining, that it may be one way to get millennials back into their seats. reporter: some say asking the millennial to turn their cell phone off for two hour

phones from bangladesh's central bank and moved to the ruvell's exchange rate, could we see more cyberattacksancine: the fiat chrysler chairman has renewed a push to merge with one of the auto industry's big guys, saying savings could top $10 billion a year. fiat chrysler and ferrari both hold meetings today. viewers aref our extremely excited about that, the first time that fiat, cnh, and ferrari shareholders meet the same day outside italy. what has been said so far? >> we just spoke with sergio marchionne. sergio who are the big guys that potentially could team up with fiat chrysler. essentially, he said that if you ork at them, the first four five carmakers in the world, gm, -- heagen, toyota, ford said gm closed the doors, so it is not likely we will have a discussion with them at this point. the koreans are not interested. potentially there are just three candidates left to dance with marchionne. mean that they are having talks with one of them, but ideally those are the three candidates that would make sense to team up with fiat chrysler. john said they were merging with one of the big

secretaryor of defense, to defend the nation's critical if researchers in the case of a cyberattacks? been endlessw warnings and testimonies that that is one of the top threats facing the country. the president needs to ask the question do we have the property authorities and organization. i do not want to hear from 2020 from a commission to review the attack on the nation's critical infrastructure that these agencies did not have the right authority, they did not have the right people -- >> and no one said anything. >> they did not have the right organization. whoever the president that is, that is the fundamental question. there is no political constituency out there. this will not get you any electoral college votes in terms of asking those questions, but those types of things where you need to ask and hold people accountable to say, i do not want to hear from some commission two years from now that there were all these problems down in the community that we do not have the authority, that know what brought this to the to. i was elected by the people to protect us, and there there

. >> panama's problems claiming a cyberattack exposing massive fraud by the world leaders.morning. welcome to your world this morning. i am del walters . >> i am stiff knee cy. the road to the presidential no, ma'amnatal is looking for difficult for the frontrunners. >> ted cruz in the wisconsin primary taking with him almost all of that state's delegates. the democrats, bernie sanders beating hillary clinton winning more than half of the delegates there. david shufler begins our coverage got bless the great state of wisconsin. >> reporter: with nearly all of the wisconsin primary votes counted, cruz southly deaf feet frontrunner donald trump. the outcome mean's trump's path to the nomination will be more difficult because his odds of winning enough del gassed before the summer convention are now slim trump did not speak tuesday night but cruz was banking on a contested convention celebrated in milwaukee loudly. >> three weeks ago, the media said wisconsin was a perfect state for donald trump. but the hard working men and women of wisconsin stood tireless lee to make sure t

say the findings are alarming, and chain added -- chang says we must prioritize security on the cyberattacks, and says we should have more security requirements in the state. most of last year we covered a lot of problems across california. we recently had an investigation that exposed the state unemployment department for mailing in documents with your social security number. what can we get to protect us.>> i don't know. i have a question, if you are consumer and with all of this hacking going on, and the social security and personal information, every time we turn around something else is being hacked, whether a retail chain or health service agent think, or something like that. what is the actual danger for the average person of that? >> it depends. if you are part of those hacked happy, there is free identification security they offer you. but if your number is out there, is the bad guy going to take it right now, knowing that the hacking just happened, and that you are aware and you have two years of free id protection, probably not. but when your guard is down after two years when it

a weapon of mass destruction is the cyberattack attacking our electric grid, dirty bombs coordinating those things, we look at the number of terror cells in america, i went to the border, talking to the sheriffs and they were telling me about other than mexicans coming across the border, people from syria and somalia and all kinds of places and they apprehend some of them but a lot of them get through but these people are setting up shop so it is not just europeans who are in trouble. >> people who are coming across the border, how are we tracking them? they go wherever will they want to go? >> that is the problem. when we talk about solidifying our border, it is not for the mexican door it shouldn't be, the primary people we should be worried about are the terrorists. >> will they will make a difference? >> i go back to empirical data. in yuma county, arizona they put in a double fee with an asphalt road for quick access, they put in border guards, border guards at the border and a quarter mile of each other they see each other and they had a policy of prosecuting first-time offender

we're starting to see the need to cooperate on new threats like cyberattacks, for example. liz: while he was talking about those types of threats, the president's visit to the kingdom was the subject of much sharper criticism as a movement is growing on capitol hill to release 28 classified pages from a congressional report that many believe ties members of the saudi government to the 9/11 attacks. few people have read these 28 pages. the man on your screen is one of them. the former ambassador to saudi arabia, robert jordan. welcome, ambassador. i know you're not allowed to reveal it was under cloak-and-dagger that you read these things, are our fears grounded that it ties the saudi government to the 9/11 attacks? >> i think it's been reported from several sources that there is no smoking gun. i think i would agree with that. having said that, it's very important to declassify these 28 pages. when i heard about the pages in 2003, i said i needed to see them, and the cia said no, you can't, you don't have a need to know. i said are you kidding? i'm the ambassador to saudi a

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between agencies to root out fraud and waste and will promote systems that are secure and prevent cyberattacks. my bill will also ensure transparency by requiring all upgrade projects to provide regular status updates on a publically available digital dash board. i want to thank all those who signed on as original sponsors, mr. speaker, and i want to say that i had discussions last night with mr. issa, the former chairman of the government reform committee. he is, i think, going to co-sponsor this bill with me and we want to see this bill be a bipartisan bill. i've also talked to ranking members on my side of the aisle in each of the relevant committees, mr. cummings, mr. pallone, mr. serrano, mr. connolly, ms. duckworth, robin kelly, ted lieu, all of whom are excited and support this piece of legislation. again, this is a totally nonpartisan bill looking for government efficiency and safety and transparency for the american people. i hope that my friends on both sides of the aisle who care deeply about making government as effective and transparent as possible as well as eliminating fraud and

are you responsible for protecting this country from cyberattacks on private networks and corporations or is it simply government? >> dod lahas a responsibilitieso defend against events of significant cyber consequence. >> for example, if may we had three urgent care centers that were hacked. we had main general health, one of our healthcare. they were hacked is that part -- what's the defendant anythiinit critical infrastructure? >> there are 16 seg toctors. the second component of the definition i gave you is not just the sector that was attacked, so to speak. but also the magnitude of the event. dod, we use the phrase significant cyber consequence. the concern being that the department of defense is not resources nor is it tasked with defending every single computer structure within the united states. so we try to identify where can our finite resources be best applied? so they are focused on the 16 segments designated to the nation's infrastructure. then tripped in those circumstances in which the actions against one of those 16 segments reaches significant cyber consequence. >> in

known for the past few years that any significant threat to our homeland will likely include a cyberattack. will you agree on that? >> can you elaborate on the role that encryption plays in this process of continuing national security, certainly the military has used forms of encryption for decades. but can we -- can you give us a contemporary snapshot of how encryption used by government or non-government users protect us against cyberattacks today? we can start over here, please. >> i will answer the question, but i'm not at all the expert in this space. i think the other panelists are much more expert than i am in the notion of encryption and protecting our infrastructure. the one point i will say that i tried to emphasis in my opening statement is that we shouldn't forget about some of the changes that are happening in terms of the way that infrastructure can be accessed. i think we sometimes lose sight of the fact that phones themselves now are used as authentication devices. if you can break the encryption and get into the phone, that may be a very easy way to get into the power grid

he responded to a committee on preventing and responding to cyberattacks, and how to protect taxpayer information. this is about one hour and 45 minutes. >> senator wyden is delayed. he has asked that i proceed without him. he will be happy to participate when he comes. good morning. it is a pleasure to welcome everyone to today's hearing, entitled "cyrus -- cyber security and protecting taxpayer information." these are important issues that we have been working on for some time. in june of last year, for example, we had a hearing on the theft of internal revenue affecting taxpayer information. much has happened since that time. at the urging of the finance committee, the irs, state revenue commissioners, and leaders in the industry came together last year for a security summit which resulted in new information sharing to help identify suspicious filing and the tax refund process. we look forward to hearing more about that after today, but in the face of this process, we have also seen unprecedented growth in the scope and scale of cyber attacks aimed at stealing personal information

part of our work today, we agreed to keep strengthening our nuclear facility's defenses against cyberattacks. we've bolstered international efforts to disrupt nuclear smuggling and the proliferation security exercise has improved. the united states and 36 partner countries have worked to install radiation detection equipment at more than 300 international border crossings, airports, and ports, and we are developing new mobile detection systems as well. and finally, as i noted this morning, we've strengthened the treaties and international partnerships that are a foundation for so many of our efforts. again, we have made significant progress and everyone involved in this work, especially our teams who have worked tirelessly for years, can take enormous pride in our achievements. nevertheless, as i said earlier, our work is by no means finished there's a great deal of nuclear and radioactive material around the world that needs to be secured. global stocks of plutonium are growing. nuclear arsenals are expanding in some countries, with more small tactical weapons, which could be a greater risk

out,"ok, "lights surviving the aftermath, examines the potential for cyberattacks on the u.s.lectric grid, he looks at how companies are prepared to respond to an attack. >> the notion that you are going to give over control of the defense of your industry requires that you give up an awful lot of information that a lot of these companies do not want to give up. there was a bill passed last fall in the senate after years of wrangling that now has private industry willing to pass on information to the government. they havefter sanitized it. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 eastern. now, a look at the process for selecting a vice presidential candidate with former campaign stop from the 2008 and 2012 elections. they talk about how someone is fitted for the job and the relationship between a presidential candidate and running mate. this was hosted by the bipartisan policy center.

we work to protect our main computer systems from cyberattacks and to safeguard taxpayer information stored in our databases. the systems withstand more than 1 million malicious attempts to access them each day. we're continuing to battle a growing problem of stolen identity refund fraud. we've made steady progress. we've found the type of individual we are dealing with have changed. now we're dealing more and more with organized crime send dates here and in other countries. so they can do a better job of impersonating taxpayers. we joined with leaders of the software agency and the states to create the security summit group. this is an unprecedented partnership that is focused on making the tax filing experience safer and more secure for taxpayers in 2016 and beyond. our collaborative efforts have shown concrete results this filing season. over the past year, we've seen three examples of what eidentit thieves are capable of and why we can't let up in this case. we've detected and stopped unauthorized attempts on our website irs.gov. one of the services targeted was our get transcrip

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has experienced historic drought, malicious cyberattacks, extensive flooding, wild fires and shootings and long with other numerous events and the tragic events in paris and brussels shows how important it is for us to be ready to protect against and respond and recover from complex, coordinated terrorist attacks. with such a wide-ranging array of threats and hazards, we must work together to leverage all of our collective resources at every level of government in order to achieve our goal of a resilient nation. with that in mind, i'd like to tell you about the things that we are doing to address these challenges. fema is working with every state in large urban area to identify their specific risks, set outcome based targets and assess their capabilities. they identify remaining gaps in their capability which then drive investments across their jurisdiction and in local resources and mutual aid planning. providing $1.6 billion to address capability gaps and risk and capability data to ensure that grant dollars are being used for preparedness. in addition to preparing grant funds, they