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Rep. Rogers on Bulletproofing Hacker Invasions

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    Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-Mich), on sharing cyber intel with the private sector.

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That's cyber threat there's a new push inside the beltway for a comprehensive cyber security bill and I went one on one with a congressman leading that legislation.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Mike Rogers.

It would allow the federal government know we have intelligence agencies that go overseas.

Collect on our adversaries things that might hurt the United States including CIBER threats that might attack the United States.

We bring those back we protect government networks.

What we wanna do is be able to share that information -- government networks account for about 5% of all the networks out there across United States.

95% -- private sector networks.

But we do a good job of protecting the government networks because we cannot know or trying to remember have a fairly good understanding what the bad guys are up to.

We want to be able to share that information with the private sector so they can secure their own networks it's really that some.

You know a decade ago when house man he had air force magazine -- ran a cover story.

Warning about the next big terrorist threat -- -- gonna be in cyberspace to actually bred to nuclear power plants.

To rail systems that none of them were bullet -- against hacker invasions it's a decade later.

And it feels like we still aren't nearly ready enough back here we've got opponents to your information sharing bill because they're upset that the government might get hold of some person's name.

Yet I feel like Washington.

Isn't going to respond quickly enough until we have some major crisis some major invasion.

Are you -- it all concerned that we aren't getting the job done up protecting these networks.

Don't.

Absolutely we are in -- -- let me rephrase that we've gone from the Cold War to the -- war we're in this cyber war and we're losing.

So we're losing intellectual property and a breathtaking pace from -- countries like China.

Countries like Iran.

Who are aggressively probing US financial services networks and others to try to cause that chaos who are mapping out.

Electric grids and and nuclear plants and other things.

For that potential cyber attack you can watch it happening.

In we have not done enough to act the problem is people don't see it.

It's that unseen war you to use your on your computer your computers working fine yes quite get -- connection that's the real problem.

Here we now spend about thirty billion dollars a year in private industry does on on cyber security that's doubled in ten years.

But in just the past year we had a 600%.

Increase.

In malware so I get the feeling were utterly -- prepared why hasn't the federal government taking a lead in trying to accomplish spike up fifty billion dollar stimulus package.

To start bullet proving even private networks it seems like you guys aren't agreeing on who should pay the cost and meanwhile our systems are unprotected.

Well here's the beautiful thing about my bill it doesn't need all that cost kid you're upstream for survivor -- -- people who are providing Internet to your local computer to your business network.

They already hundreds of thousands of times second.

Check for bad things going into your system that's if you pay them to do you pay them this try to stop that.

All of this we need to do is share this malicious code with -- each other about really bad things that are happening to computers she can stop it upstream.

So it doesn't mean that every high tea shop in America has to get this particular information and apply -- to their network.

You wanna get it is high upstream in the delivery process.

To these networks as you possibly can.

And it doesn't it -- therefore you don't have to spend a gazillion dollars that's the beauty of it.

There are those who want to go in and regulate and they wanna get the government handed to the Internet I think that's dangerous yes this is really the one way.

That the high tech industry says they love it.

Financial services networks and in the East Coast say they love it.

Some privacy groups the ones who are right really understanding of the technology say it's okay I'm.

Why they all love and I just hope we get to a point where some will start doing it maybe it's time for a counter -- attack.

Thanks for being with us represented -- Rogers -- -- --

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