Testimony by: Tom Kellermann, Core Security VP of security awareness
Date: 04.28.2009
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building
Abstract:
Chairman Lieberman, Ranking Member Collins and Members of the Committee, I profoundly appreciate the opportunity to address you today on these matters of cyber-security before us which are so critically important to protecting the well-being of our nation’s citizens, physical infrastructure, intellectual property and economy.
Over my years of work as an information technology (IT) security practitioner for organizations including the World Bank, as an advocate for policy efforts including the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, and as a representative of Core Security Technologies, I’ve had the unique opportunity to gain detailed insight into the incredible challenges facing organizations of all kinds today, including federal agencies, in relation to the multifarious risks posed by hackers, virus-writers, state actors and a litany of other malicious operators involved in executing cybercrimes.
It is without any shade of doubt that I sit here before you determined to convince you further that the problems facing our nation today as it relates to stemming the ability of individuals, organized criminals, terrorists and foreign nations themselves to infiltrate our electronic infrastructure – for the purpose of assailing everything from our most strategic national information resources to our critical physical grid systems – cannot be understated.
