can i just for the record thank mr. mann for his 30 years of fbi service as well. thank you for all the time you put on the target, sir. >> thank y rogers was a former fbi agent himself. let's go to mr. stearns now. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me take my questions alittle along the line that my colleague from michigan talked about when he talked about advanced persistent threat. dr. amoroso, when you did your opening statement, you were speaking quite eloquently, talking about malicious software, malware you talked about. and you painted this picture that the malware itself you were impressed how well it was developed, put together, and you sort of alluded to the fact that it was almost not unpenetrable, but it was to the point you were respectful of it and were not sure we were keeping up. is that my interpretation of what you said? >> that's exactly right. we're definitely not keeping up. we're trying. think of the dizzying pace of innovation you see out in silicon valley, right? new things every day. the hacking and the malicious adversary community, they're

mr. david mann. chief security officer for century link. thank you for being here. we look forward to your comments. pull that microphone closer to you. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify before you. >> excuse me. is your microphone on? >> we're having trouble hearing you. is that light lit up there? you have to get really close. just saying. >> chairman walden and ranking member eshoo and members, thank you for the opportunity to testify on this important topic. century link, a provider, provides communications services to over 14 million homes and businesses in more than 37 states around the world. our services include voice, broadband, video and data as well as fiber call and cloud and managed security solutions. we have voice and internet customers to the largest fortune 500 customers. as vice president for century link, i'm responsible for all corporate functions, including information security. before joining century link, i worked for 30 years with the fbi and was responsible for investigative teams and programs related to targeted attacks on the int

providers to consider forming their own best practices and secure the the in the cloud, and like mr. mann and dr. amoroso answer that, please. and we don't have much time. >> first of all, we are already talking to the cloud providers and some of us are in fact clout providers. so the conversation is well under way. we are very familiar with official pledges, and if you think about it, the term of cloud is a rather generic term that is probably misunderstood. it can mean a number of different things for a different type of customer and so therefore i would say we continue to include them in the conversation as we have everyone else so to speak at the table as partners, and the solutions you are looking for are going to have to be integrated across the white platform so therefore i would say that you would want to keep them in the conversation. >> thank you. >> so, my mother has a pc at home that i am sure is attacking china or something because it's not administered properly and she's got big tower with the verizon, the holding. she doesn't need that. she would be better served to have a

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and just for the record i thank mr. mann for his 30 years of fbi service. thank you for all the time you've put on the target, sir. >> yeah. you'd think rogers is a former fbi agent himself. let's go to mr. sterns now. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me take my questions a little l l bit along the lines of my colleague from michigan. d. amoroso, when you did your opening statement, you were speaking quite eloquently and talking about malicious software, malware you talked about. and you painted this picture that the malware itself you were impressed how well it was developed, put together, and you sort of alluded to the fact that it was almost not unpenetrable but it was to the point you were respectful of it and were not sure we were keeping up. is that my interpretation of what you said? >> that's exactly right. we're definitely not keeping up. we're trying. and think of the dizzying pace of innovation that you see out in silicon valley, right? i mean, new things every day. the hacking and the malicious adversary community, they're moving at the same pace.

mr. jones, who had contested mann's election was paid the full freight, $2500. but in menard's case the committee on accounts proposed lowering that amount to $1500. now, to be fair, the chairman of this three-person panel and it was a rather backwards panel had decided he could get some attention and save the house a little bit of cash and he also recommended that caleb hunt only be paid $1,500 in this case. but dawes objected to this because he smelled that there was more than just pecuniary motivation at work for the reduction and the reaction to him in the chamber was telling. i appeal to the house that they will be not carried away by their prejudiceses against color and race, dawes said. i appeal to them, not to treat him by one rule and the white man by another. i ask the gentleman who passed the constitutional amendment to see that this is not done. mr. speaker, it is unconstitutional to treat him differently. and the congressional globe, which often has wonderful little asides in it from this time period, reported that it was laughter that greeted each

manne from a financial corporation says the effect of this resignation of will be short term. i believe the situation has come about because of the disagreements escalating you know between mr that's a very good mr deer pasta. we don't believe that that result is in a crisis situation. it's that is very manageable for position in the room in a market so there is no crisis situation there the best the unique and and finally short term of the business will put some pressure on the share price our longer term depending on who is elected the new chairman of the board it could be positive for the sure has. speaking about share prices let's take a look at how the markets were faring and how roussel shares were doing well overall market performance was positive with the r.t.s. gaining almost two percent by the end of the day with my six around half a percent but if we take a look at the main movers on the mice you'll see that roussel was the outsider of trading down no three point four percent of the gross gazprom also moved into the red territory by the end of the session on lower energy prices that we saw at the close and there's burbank among financial stocks was the strongest up one

mr. allen was -- it was alleged that he had transported a young native alaskan woman across state lines in violation of the mannact. it has been widely reported in the media. justice higher up scuttle that -- a question i would have to you is to what extent was the fbi involved in that investigation, and did that investigation indicate any reason that the prosecution should not go forward? this is just really sad people back in alaska. they cannot understand why the department justice has dropped this, and i attempted to get answers all the way up the chain and simply have not been able to get any. do you know any reason that based on that investigation the prosecution should not have come forward. >> i do not. that is something we would have to get back to you on. my expectation -- i shouldn't say that. this is a part of the oh p. r. as much of the allegation and series of events of that particular allegation would be addressed in that arena. i am not familiar with the court's report that was issued earlier today. i do not know -- or was a subject of that particular investigation. >> and i would ask you becaus