“Rarely has something been so important and so talked about with less clarity and less apparent understanding than this phenomenon.”
- Former National Security Agency and the former
CIA Director Gen. (Ret.) Michael Hayden.
(1) Oldsmar Water Treatment Facility hacked, potentially leading to poisoned water for thousands of residents.
(2) St Pete teen hacked and crashed the Internet for all 145 Pinellas schools.
(3) Colonial Pipeline was hacked, and operations were taken offline, resulting in panic buying at the pumps.
(4) It is estimated that cybercrime will cost the world over $10 Trillion a year by 2025, representing the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history.
There are more critical issues in the cyber domain than Instagram for Kids. I have spent my working career in the information technology sector, the majority working on our military’s cyber defenses. I am acutely aware of how vulnerable our country is in this domain. Our country needs action and attention on cybersecurity . . . action that I will bring. The funding for this sector in the Build Back Better legislation is only a drop in the bucket of financing needed and does little for security in this domain.
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