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Eric Geller @ericgeller
@Bing_Chris @dnvolz dustin hitting that cyber/surveillance intersection sweet spot — PolitiTweet.org
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"The more that information is held by compromised private sector entities, the less we are able to protect everyone else," Wales said. "And so I think that is something that we are eager to work with Congress to see how that can be addressed." — PolitiTweet.org
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Steven Palazzo asks for stats on private-sector hacking. Wales: "One of the challenges in answering your question with more specificity is that we are entirely dependent upon the private sector voluntarily sharing information with us..." — PolitiTweet.org
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Goldstein: "This is unequivocally one of my top priorities. Diversity and inclusion is a national security issue, and it is an urgent imperative for us to have a cybersecurity workforce that reflects the diversity of this country." — PolitiTweet.org
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Underwood asks about CISA workforce diversity. Wales says 35% of employees are women but doesn't have stat for employees of color. He says CISA plans to accelerate diverse recruitment efforts as pandemic allows. — PolitiTweet.org
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Underwood: How should Congress help protect state and local governments? Wales: No specific proposal to outline today. But we know we need to “identify additional mechanisms by which we can provide that level of support.” — PolitiTweet.org
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Lauren Underwood asks how the Covid funding will help CISA protect non-federal partners. Wales: The new incident response funding “will free up necessary capabilities and will allow us to support more state, local and private sector entities that are coming to us for support.” — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Hinson: Can you talk about what your long-term threat hunting plans are? Goldstein: “What we want to move to is a paradigm where CISA is able to continuously assess security data from agencies on an ongoing basis for evidence of compromise." — PolitiTweet.org
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Ashley Hinson asks who was behind SolarWinds and Exchange. Wales reiterates that USG has said SolarWinds is likely Russian and says govt is still assessing and will share more information "soon." Says USG hasn't attributed Exchange yet. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Ruppersberger also mentioned the force structure assessment that the FY21 NDAA required CISA to complete. Wales says CISA is working on that assessment and expects to brief the Hill "later this year." — PolitiTweet.org
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Wales: “The money" in the Covid bill "is a down payment on the scale of capabilities, tools and resources we need.” — PolitiTweet.org
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Dutch Ruppersberger asks about CISA's resource needs. Wales: “Without a doubt, to accomplish the scale of the mission that we have, we need more resources.” — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
John Rutherford asked a series of questions about CDM demployment. Kinda wonky stuff, but the gist is that Wales and Goldstein say CDM deployment is going well and the program has given agencies the visibility necessary to implement CISA's emergency directives. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
DeLauro: Did 2020 election security work distract from things like SolarWinds and contribute to its success? Wales: No. We can "work multiple problems. … I do not believe that the election distracted us. If anything, it has further honed our capabilities" e.g. coordination. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
DeLauro really wants a cost and timing estimate for this repositioning of CISA's visibility efforts. “Every month that goes by, we are at risk” for SolarWinds/Exchange repeats, she says. — PolitiTweet.org
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Wales adds: The $650m in the Covid bill “is a down payment" on things like this transition. "It accelerates some of these efforts. But this is going to require sustained investment” for both CISA and other agencies. — PolitiTweet.org
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DeLauro: Timing on transition? Goldstein: “The transition is underway now.” We have pilots going. With funding from Congress, we’ll be able to accelerate those pilots. He says "it will be iterative" and can't give ETA at the moment. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
EINSTEIN “has grown somewhat stale over time and now does not provide the visibility that CISA needs," Goldstein says. For that reason, CISA is "urgently moving our detection capabilities from that perimeter layer into agency networks." — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Rosa DeLauro: Why isn’t EINSTEIN more effective? What is its future? Goldstein: EINSTEIN was originally designed to protect the edge of a network. For various reasons, especially the obfuscating nature of encryption, EINSTEIN can’t see much of what it was designed to see. — PolitiTweet.org
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Fleischmann asks about the government's handling of supply chain attacks. Wales says they're "one of the most challenging [types of attacks] to address, and it's going to take a lot more creative thinking to fully solve it." Goldstein emphasizes focus on kill chain. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Roybal-Allard: Any federal agencies compromised in Exchange Server hacking activity? Goldstein: "At this point in time, there are no federal civilian agencies that are confirmed to be compromised," but "this is an evolving campaign, with new information coming in by the hour." — PolitiTweet.org
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Roybal-Allard: Any evidence SolarWinds adversaries did more than steal data? Wales: "We have no evidence at this time that the actor did anything except steal information." — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Goldstein: "We deeply appreciate Congress's consideration of additional funding to address these priorities," but that money should be considered a "down payment" on a more "sustained effort" to boost CISA. — PolitiTweet.org
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Goldstein: "We deeply appreciate Congress's consideration of additional funding to address these priorities..." — PolitiTweet.org
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CISA's four "strategic growth" areas, per Goldstein: * Need to increase CISA’s visibility into other agencies’ networks * Need to expand CISA’s incident response capacity * Need to improve ability to analyze large volumes of data * Need to promote adoption of defensible networks — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Eric Goldstein, new head of CISA's Cyber Division, speaking now. “These incidents reflect a need to strengthen our nation's cyber defenses, invest in new capabilities and begin to fundamentally change how we think about cybersecurity.” — PolitiTweet.org
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Wales: “We need to rethink our approach to managing cybersecurity across 101 federal civilian executive branch agencies.” — PolitiTweet.org
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“We continue to work this campaign aggressively," Wales says of CISA's response to SolarWinds. — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Acting CISA Director Brandon Wales is delivering his opening statement. “If we needed any reminder of the significance of the cyber threats we face to our national and economic security, the last three months, and indeed the last week, should serve as a warning.” — PolitiTweet.org
Eric Geller @ericgeller
Subcommittee ranking member Chuck Fleischmann to CISA officials: "With limited resources at your disposal, you have done a tremendous job." — PolitiTweet.org
