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mhm. Yeah, mm Yeah. Welcome everybody.

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I'm Scott Midkiff, uh, Professor of Electrical and Computer

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Engineering at Virginia Tech and also served as the university's

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Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer.

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Um, hope you had a great experience this week

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at the Virginia regional cyber security bootcamp. I'm sure

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you've learned a lot. Events like this are very

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important as we look at developing cybersecurity expertise for the

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United States and it's really been Virginia tax honor and

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great pleasure to host this event this week. I

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also hope you've had a lot of fun, uh

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had a chance to see some of our campus,

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haven't spent all of your time behind a screen,

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but maybe you have. Uh huh. Also just

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as a little bit of a word of advice for

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our visitors, I know some of you have fun

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and kind of unique way. So I turned my

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cell phone off before coming in. So uh,

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you know, always a good tip in this kind

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of an audience. Right? So, um,

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we're really fortunate to have a distinguished set of guests

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that will share some remarks with us and uh to

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be part of the recognitions that will happen uh later

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in in this uh ceremony. So first it's my

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great pleasure to introduce Timothy D Sands, who is

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the 16th president of Virginia Tech. Dr Sands joined

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Virginia Tech just on June one of this year,

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although he's been making a number of visits to campus

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before this, so he's he's not not new to

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campus, but fairly new prior to coming to Virginia

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Tech Dr Sands was the provost and executive vice president

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for academic Affairs at Purdue University, A role he

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had served in since 2000, since April 2010,

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and he served as acting president of Purdue from June

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2012 until January 2013. He has his degrees in

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Engineering Physics and material science from the University of California

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Berkeley. Um He was at Telcordia, followed by

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being on the faculty at Berkeley and then joined Perdue

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as the director of the work Nanotechnology center. So

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I actually have the pleasure of having dr sands not

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only as president Virginia Tech, but also a colleague

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and electrical and computer engineering, which is a great

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thing. Uh he is a scholar as well as

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an administrator, recognized for his work and uh as

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being a fellow of the Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers

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, the materials research Society and the National Academy of

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Inventors. So please join me in welcoming Dr Tim

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Sands. Thank you. Vice President Midkiff for inviting

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me. I hope you've had a good time here

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on the Virginia Tech campus. I've I've been learning

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it right along with you. As a as vice

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president, Midkiff said, I hope you have gotten

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out of the the, the building occasionally. I

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don't know, we'll find out. I'll learn more

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about what you've done I think later today, but

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it's great to be here. And I'd also like

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to acknowledge the presence of our Secretary of Technology,

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Karen Jackson, who's joining us and we'll be here

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to make some remarks and help hand out the awards

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. It's wonderful show of support from the commonwealth of

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Virginia. As you of course know, there's a

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nationwide shortage of cybersecurity professionals, uh, and there

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is one now, but if you think out a

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few years and obviously, you know that you wouldn't

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be here, uh, there is a tremendous need

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that is building up not only within the federal government

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, for security reasons, national and homeland security,

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but also in industry. I've had the chance of

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being at Purdue to interact with a large number of

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uh ceos of large companies and this is probably the

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biggest concern they've got when you really get down to

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what the future is going to be about. The

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internet of things, whatever you wanna call it.

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There are so many vulnerabilities even for industry. So

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it's such a broad need and a wonderful opportunity for

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you. Programs like the U. S. Cyber

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challenge create or help to create a pipeline between the

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talent, between the talent that you represent and the

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opportunities in industry and government. We need to grow

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the number and the skill level of the professionals who

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serve in those roles. And Virginia Tech's delighted to

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partner in uh with the U. S. Cyber

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challenge to host this regional cyber security bootcamp. It's

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just one example of how Virginia tech is striving to

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do its part in this critical workforce need in cybersecurity

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. You probably know that this isn't the only thing

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we do in cybersecurity. A lot of our faculty

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across the university work on issues of cybersecurity related to

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cybersecurity as part of the research programs and you probably

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know better than I, that it's a fascinating area

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, not only the technology aspect of it, but

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it brings in ethics and policy and international relations,

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It's it's extraordinarily broad and complicated field. And so

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we're pleased to be represented in almost every corner of

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cybersecurity just to give you a few examples of some

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of the other programs here, uh you may not

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be able to want to participate in them, but

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spread the word for us. We just started a

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new minor in cybersecurity that recognizes undergraduates who developed a

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deep technical skills in the field, and we've got

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a new graduate certificate in cybersecurity as well, and

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we're really pleased to see those grow with funding from

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the National Science Foundation. We've established the Virginia tech

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cyber scholars program. This is a cyber core uh

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scholarship for service program and support students for the final

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two years that are undergraduate program and then into a

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follow on year for a master's degree. In addition

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to this large and growing sponsored research program and all

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the new academic programs, we've got the hume Center

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for National Security and Technology and I've had a chance

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. It's one of the first things I did when

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I became president is to visit the hume center.

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Um It's located here and in Arlington Virginia. And

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uh it's it's pretty extraordinary is focused to a large

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extent on preparing students for technical careers in national security

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and the Intelligence community through programs like the cyber scholars

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and the Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence. Um

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All right, well we've also got our I.

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T. Security lab directed by randy martini who you

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all know quite well standing back here. Uh And

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uh that is uh provides undergraduate and graduate students with

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cybersecurity experience in an operational environment that uses a teaching

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hospital model which I think is a very appropriate way

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not only for this topic but almost anything we do

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to look at that blend of hands on and minds

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on experiences. So I know you had a very

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interesting program this week uh understand you learned something about

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National Security Windows Internals and I heard just a moment

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ago that you had at some a module and car

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hacking. I really need to find out more about

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that. That's a interesting title. I think it's

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probably what I think it is but uh you'll have

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to explain that to me so I wish you the

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best in your, the development of your career.

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I think you've got a bright future ahead of you

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. You've already achieved quite a bit to be here

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, but we need you, the nation needs you

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. But so does are, so does our industry

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. And so I look forward to seeing where you

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end up and what you do for the country and

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what you do for our economy in the future.

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Thank you for joining us here at Virginia Tech and

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look forward to uh the presentation of the awards.

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Thanks. Our next guest is john Condon, who

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is the founder and chairman of the Ambit Group.

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And I'm actually gonna dispense with any introduction uh,

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for john, because I understand his presentation will give

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us some some background in his, in his personal

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history, john, thank you. Hello everybody.

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And I'm glad I was able to get here when

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I did so. I was able to catch the

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last hour or so the activities and I was fascinated

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. Um, let me tell you what a pleasure

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it is to uh, to join you today.

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And I congratulate each of you for your commitment as

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cyber warriors as a lead into my comments today.

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Let me share a very recent personal experience. About

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a week ago, my wife and I experienced something

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out of the ordinary. Our home was struck by

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lightning and over the next several days we came to

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the realization of just how insidious and disruptive this incursion

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in our household by mother nature has caused and could

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be several days later, we're still dealing with a

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multitude of contractors, You know, many of them

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, the pep goes and Comcast and Verizon and it

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goes on and on. Our wires were literally fried

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, as were several of our systems and related equipment

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. The bottom line is that our household is both

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disrupted and dysfunctional. Does this sound familiar? So

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put yourself in the place of anybody, any company

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, any government agency, any entity that's ever been

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hacked. It's like a lightning strike that comes out

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of nowhere. You're totally unsuspecting. And then wham

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it happens today. We are all becoming more and

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more aware of the cyber threat. Thanks to the

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media and the many reports of wholesale cyber assaults.

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We are all much more aware of this threat.

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But just what are we doing about it? Are

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we standing on the sidelines? Are we just hoping

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that it will miss us? Not me. It

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will never happen to me. It happens to those

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folks we read about in the news or the government

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, the government will take care of it. I

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don't need to be worried about this. Well,

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human nature tends to make people think less of threats

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and I think that it just won't happen to them

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. And in this light, I'm of the opinion

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that the average american takes a dim and even a

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blind view up the likelihood that a cyber attack will

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mess up their day. Indeed, I'd wager a

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bet with strong odds that the average american has no

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idea of the potential of a major cyberattack on the

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nation's infrastructure. They simply don't think of these things

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. I'm reminded of how ill prepared most coastal communities

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are for hurricanes, even in the face of monumental

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data that tells them it's coming their way. Just

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a few weeks ago, there was national news about

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a bridge on a major highway in Delaware being shut

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down due to structural deficiencies. Most of you probably

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have not heard another peep about this. But if

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you happen to live south of Wilmington, Delaware and

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have a job in Wilmington, then your life has

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changed dramatically. This bridge is going to be closed

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for months, not just a few days or weeks

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for several months. So you're one hour commute has

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just turned it into a nightmarish, 3-4 hour commute

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whole day to your schedule. Now, hackers had

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no role in this debacle. This was caused by

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human error and negligence and had absolutely nothing to do

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with any systems technology. The result, however,

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has had a horrible impact on thousands of commuters who

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consequences. So I tell you about my lightning strike

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and the Delaware bridge shutdown, only to place an

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exclamation mark on what it might be like on a

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national level where we to come under a massive,

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full scale and coordinated cyber attack on our nation's infrastructure

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. The consequences are almost unimaginable. So this in

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my mind is why each of you and this noble

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role that you have chosen means so much to our

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country and our national security. I served in our

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Navy for many years and I was privileged to command

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two warships during my career. Each and every sailor

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on those ships participated in a program known as preventive

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maintenance program. This program consisted of a combination of

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daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly procedures, maintenance

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procedures for every piece of equipment on the ship.

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consistently safe and reliable operations of every single component of

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that ship. As a junior officer, fresh out

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of the Naval Academy, I recall my very first

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commanding officer explaining the preventive maintenance program to a number

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of the junior junior officers on board that ship.

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One of the things that he said that day has

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stuck with me forever, and I took heart in

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his words when I was the skipper of those two

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ships that I was privileged to command, he said

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something to this effect. Our sailors do their work

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every day and the ship sails along with no complications

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or breakdowns, and we can easily fall into the

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habit of just taking this for granted. And that

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would be a huge mistake. So never forget to

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thank your sailors for their good work. You may

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not see them at their work because it goes on

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day and night, but you see the results when

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our ship operates smoothly and most of all safely.

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Ladies and gentlemen, in your work as cyber warriors

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, most of what you do will not be seen

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. But I can promise you this. The results

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will be felt every day when the normality of daily

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life across our nation is protected and preserved by your

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good work. Again, I congratulate each of you

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as you embark on this most important and noble journey

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and I wish you only the best in your bright

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future. Thank you. And I believe next we're

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going to have a video from Governor Mcauliffe who I

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think would have liked to have been here today rather

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than dealing with the budget issues in Richmond. But

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my understanding from the press is that he will be

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signing the budget today and xing out parts of it

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I guess. And so we'll see what happens.

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But he did take the time to create a video

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that will now watch. I wish I could be

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there personally. I congratulate you for participating in the

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U. S. Cyber Challenge summer camp. You

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are to be commended for the dedication and hard work

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it took to reach this event and that is when

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the real work started. I know you have had

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an intense week filled with training mentorship guides and even

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capture the flag competition and I hope will propel your

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ambitions and aspirations in the field of cybersecurity. I

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want to thank the U. S. Cyber Challenge

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staff, your instructors, Virginia tech and all of

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you for being part of such an important program.

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Cybersecurity is an evolving industry that offers great promise for

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growth now and into the future. Securing our information

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and assets is a top priority for Virginia and frankly

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the nation and workforce development is at the core of

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the industry's development. That is why. Your participation

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in the U. S. Cyber challenge is critical

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both your own career ambitions and the long term security

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of our country. Congratulations again. And I wish

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you success in your future pursuits. We are fortunate

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today to have the the governor and and uh the

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commonwealth of Virginia represented by Karen Jackson, who is

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the secretary of technology for the commonwealth. Um I've

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actually known Karen a long time, she has been

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with the Center for Innovative technology or was with the

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Center for Innovative technology for many years, which is

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uh their role has evolved. But generally it is

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it has tried to spur technology development, entrepreneurship,

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new industry and technology areas in the commonwealth. And

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Virginia Tech has had the opportunity to work closely with

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Karen, looking at extending broadband to underserved communities and

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really understanding that very important problem, making sure that

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all of our citizens have the opportunity for good connectivity

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to the internet and all the things that it provides

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. In 2009, Karen was appointed as the Deputy

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Secretary of Technology by then Governor Tim Kaine. And

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she continued to serve in that role in the administration

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of Governor robert Mcdonald as governor, Mcauliffe came into

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office, he made the decision to appoint Karen as

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the Secretary of Technology, which was an excellent choice

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uh in my opinion. And uh in this role

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she oversees uh in addition to really being a spokesperson

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for technology and really trying to make sure that the

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commonwealth uses innovative uses information technology and in efficient and

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innovative ways. She oversees two agencies, the Center

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for Innovative Technology which she has a long history with

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as well as Vida, which is the Virginia Information

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Technology Information technology Agency which deals with a lot of

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the I. T. Issues for for the commonwealth

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. So it's my pleasure to uh welcome Karen Jackson

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here. Good afternoon. How many had a great

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week? Yeah I think maybe there's a few chaperones

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or parents back there that didn't raise their hands.

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I'm sure they're not campers. Um So on behalf

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of the governor um congratulations for what you've accomplished so

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far and all the things that you're going to accomplish

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. He would love to have been here today.

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He loves events like this and I can honestly tell

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you that cyber security is at the top of his

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priority list. Um Even before he was inaugurated we

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had conversations about the fact that we needed to do

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everything we could to make sure that Virginia is as

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secure as it can possibly be. Um Like some

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of the other folks have said I've been a victim

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of a cyber pack. Um And I think that

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the piece that astounded me most mind was on the

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healthcare side. My healthcare records were actually tapped into

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. Um It was an internal hack and it was

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the records were actually taken by an L. P

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system. And before they were able to detect it

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several hundreds thousands of records had been had been stolen

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. For that. I have the pleasure of being

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able to check my credit record for free to make

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sure that you know nothing happens to me. So

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when it does hit home it is disruptive. It's

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very frustrating. Um But I think I learned a

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very important lesson since I do ever see the I

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. T. Agencies for the commonwealth which holds Oliver

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citizen data, birth records, death records, tax

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records, social security numbers all lie within our purview

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of things. We have to pay attention to.

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Um The area of internal hack is something that we

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don't pay enough attention to. We pay play a

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great deal of time looking outside our own walls and

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we try to secure against enemies that are not here

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, but when the enemy is actually on the inside

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of your own organization, that's an entirely different Ballgame

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. And so we are working very hard to make

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sure that we're secure. We have a Chief Information

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security officer, Mike Watson who's done a lot of

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work. We just recently, I think we were

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the only state or at least the first state to

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step out and adopt in this framework that was released

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earlier this year. And we currently stood up a

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cyber condition that is going to look at all aspects

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of cybersecurity in the commonwealth, both from an economic

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development standpoint, we want Virginia to be a cyber

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hub for the nation. We feel like with assets

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such as Virginia tech and the hume center and others

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that we have a great footprint to stand on and

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we really want to maximize on all of those assets

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and activities to make Virginia a vibrant place for camps

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like this, for other activities. So any of

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you who are not from Virginia, you'd like to

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stay, come back. It's a great place to

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be. So we're gonna be looking at economic development

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workforce and education can't say enough about that without the

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workforce. The security won't happen. And that's a

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scary thought because we are trying to prepare people for

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jobs that we didn't see 20 years ago. And

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so our systems are not adequately aligned for the cyber

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jobs that we need. And obviously places like tech

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, you be a women marry and others are taking

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great steps to try to catch up and put programs

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in place. But we really This training should have

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started 10 years ago. That's just the reality in

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order for us to have the workforce that we need

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. So we're gonna spend a lot of time working

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on workforce and education securing internal networks um, in

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just stop and think about a government for a second

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. We have energy dependencies, we have telecom dependencies

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, we have water dependencies and with this new internet

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of things and more and more things being attached to

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the internet from fitbits all the way through control systems

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for major systems that we depend on on a daily

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basis. There are a multitude of areas where we

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are vulnerable and so we are going to be working

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with our partners to do what we can to make

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sure that not only are cyber houses in order,

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but there's is as well, we'll also be looking

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at cyber crime, it's inevitable people are going to

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do things they shouldn't. And we're going to be

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looking at how we need to deal with those folks

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once they have committed the atrocities. We have the

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Virginia State Police, we have the Department of Homeland

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Security, we have our I. T. Shop

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vita all that have some piece of the jurisdictional responsibilities

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for cyber but in the case of an attack who

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goes in first who does remediation who Obviously the punishment

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of the criminals falls to the law enforcement side.

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But there's a whole hierarchy. There is not something

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that the states have ever dealt with before. And

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so we're working our way through that process to figure

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out how we respond if and when we get attacked

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, one of our major suppliers gets attacked or you

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know even a major business in the commonwealth that we

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rely on what can we do to be there to

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help and make sure that our citizens are made whole

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as quickly as possible. Um I obviously cannot say

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enough. We actually were just chosen as an FAA

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test center. If anybody thinks about unmanned vehicles and

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unmanned aerial systems, probably cyber security is top of

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the line of things that we need to be looking

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at. We cannot afford for somebody to hack into

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the control systems of one of those birds and actually

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bring it down. The industry has been fraught with

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a lot of criticism. Our military friends who named

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their vehicles drone, predator, global hawk, valiant

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angel didn't do us a whole lot of favors because

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everybody sees these drones unmanned systems as predatory in nature

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. And so we've done a lot of homework and

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google helped us out a lot when they not google

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, sorry amazon helped us out a lot when they

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decided they wanted to actually deliver packages using an unmanned

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vehicle because it demystified and it made it something fun

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. And so now that we've crossed that chasm and

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we're into that cyber security is something that we put

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the highest, highest priority on in terms of our

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U. S. Operations and actually Virginia text in

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the lead on that project. So we're gonna be

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turning to them as well as some of the other

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partner universities to make sure that those systems are as

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safe as they can possibly be going forward. They

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also have a lot of port activity. Um We

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have some of the largest ports on the East coast

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and securing those we have preparing for the Panamax ships

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that will be coming up through the Panama canal.

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Again, if you think about a gPS jammer and

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what it can do to the course of a major

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ship, that's scary. Especially when you look at

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the port facilities that could be jeopardized by that.

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And the ports themselves are more and more mechanized and

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again, good GPS jammer that you can get for

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a very little amount of money and a dangerous person

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on the other side could wreak havoc in the commonwealth

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pretty quickly. So we are committed to cyber.

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We have Richard Clarke who was a three time presidential

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advisor in the White House as the co chair along

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with myself on the Cyber Commission and we are forming

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workgroups to look at all these topics and would encourage

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you, you're the bright minds. You guys are

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the ones leading the charge into the future. We're

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just trying to harness your energy and get behind you

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, as you tell us what we need to do

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to secure not only the commonwealth, but also the

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nation. So congratulations on behalf of the governor.

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Um, and we look forward to hosting more of

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these events as we go forward. Look forward to

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coming back and partnering with tech on other cyber related

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events. But honestly, thank you for all that

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you're doing because we need your expertise now and into

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the future. So thank you very much for having

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me here. Thank you, Karen. Yeah.