We're working with technology companies to ensure that they understand what we think safe products are. That is secure by design, meaning tested, developed such that you reduce the number of vulnerabilities and flaws that can be exploited by malicious threat actors. So I don't have to teach my 90 year old mom how to enable multi factor to factor authentication. And again, we're working with industry on this who I think gets it. But it's hard because there's ever been any regulation of technology. No, never, never been it.
Donald Trump signed the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency into existence in 2018 with the mandate to protect America’s infrastructure from threats digital and physical. Trump also made CISA a household name when he fired the department’s head in 2020 for noting that, no, the election was not stolen. Today, we hear from Jen Easterly, the woman who now runs CISA and has the job of preventing another SolarWinds or Colonial Pipeline attack as well as preventing foreign and domestic attacks in an election environment that has become highly politicized. Her goal? Make elections boring again.
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