please join me in welcoming trevor rudolph to the podium this morning. trevor. [applause] mr. rudolph: good morning, everyone. can you hear me in the back? carol, can you hear me? all right, all right. did morning it's a pleasure to be here. i want to thank first everybody in the audience for your attendance. adobe for sponsoring the event. i jumped at the opportunity to speak this morning as i do see part of my role as being an advocate for cyber security iofessionals and telling what call the whole story, and what i mean by that is good news rarely makes headlines, as you all know. the opportunity encouragingt some developments. before we get started, the common question i get out in the community is we see the white house and omb are doing the right things, rights? but to what end, right? what is the actual strategy? there's a strategy. as folks remember, about over a year ago, we had a number of devastating cyber security incidents that impacted, frankly, millions of people. incidents, of those our basic cyber hygiene was frankly nowhere where it needed to be. our focus rea

welcomingn me in trevor rudolph to the podium this morning. trevor. [applause] mr. rudolph: good morning everyone. it is a pleasure to be here. i want to thank everyone in the audience for your attendance. for adobe for hosting and sponsoring the event. i jumped at the opportunity to i do this morning because see part of my role as being an advocate for federal cyber security professionals and telling what i call the whole story. that goodn by that is news rarely makes headlines. opportunitytake the to brief you this morning on some think urging development. a common get started, aestion i get is -- as community, we can see that the white house is publishing a lot of policies. to what end? what is the strategy? as folks remember, about a year ago, we had a number of devastating cyber security incidents that impacted millions of people. as a result of those incidents, we realized that our basic cyber hygiene was not where it needed to be. through the course of 30 day target our focus was on operational actions, high-impact to shore up the hygiene as quickly as possibl

thank you so much to our friends to start things off this morning we are privileged to have trevor rudolph with us this morning. the cyber and national security units. they are tasked with strengthening federal security in strategic policy implementation. in this role has responsibilities is advising the chief information officer on cyber security performance and the strategy and implementation plan and where the architects of action plan so please trevor rudolph everybody in for sponsoring i jumped because i do see part of my role as been we are doing but to one end. what we that impactedour focus on and suggest a they're the president announced his plan with the budget last february and it is a combination of a number of initiatives that we think and feel very strongly about that will help drive strategic change not just at this. so a lot of folks ask me what is it. if you go to the white house webpage you will see a fact page. it is a 19 billion-dollar sub security proposal which represents 35% increase over the previous budget year. it is quite substantial. another thing i like to ment