cto strategic services, also a senior vice president for cyber and our moderators who is the vp at fireeyeplease give all three of them a warm welcome. ♪ >> the goal of this event was to feel and look like a ted event. that's a high bar we're trying to meet here, try to keep the energy up for you guys. i think we have an interesting topic from the panelists. we will dive into a few key questions on how we can use or leverage threat intelligence to better pursue the adversary and get an advantage maybe leaning on what jeff just talked about, how do we not only think about defenses but prevention as well in cyber specifically, you know, with government systems, data, and critical applications and assets. so charles, let's start with you with a question, where do you see based on our knowledge of threats and threat trends, where do you see in 2018 and going forward trends focused on government targets, dot gov, and where do we anticipate potential risk areas that we need to focus on across the government space? >> ron, first of all, before i get started, a little bit about my background. i ru