Cybersecurity Expert Chris Krebs Warns of Risks to U.S.
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | exchanges, the Goldman Sachs podcast featuring exchanges on rates, inflation and US |
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| 0:15.0 | For the sharpest analysis on forces driving the markets and the economy |
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| 0:26.0 | Listen now. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, October 24th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.0 | Are you a tech executive looking for a part-time job? What about signing up |
| 0:45.7 | to be a military reservist? The Defense Department is considering an |
| 0:50.2 | initiative to bring some of Silicon Valley's top talent deeper into its folds. |
| 0:56.0 | And then, U.S. businesses are on the front lines as China owns its hacking capabilities. |
| 1:02.8 | That's according to Chris Krebs, chief intelligence and public policy |
| 1:06.8 | officer at cybersecurity firm Sentinel One. |
| 1:10.1 | At W.S.J. Tech Live, he described what he says is China honing its ability to turn off American critical infrastructure |
| 1:18.2 | if it wanted to disrupt a U.S. response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan. |
| 1:22.6 | We'll have highlights from his conversation with our reporter, Ralph Winkler. |
| 1:27.0 | But first, the Defense Department is considering asking chief technology officers and other senior |
| 1:36.0 | tech professionals to join its reserves in high-ranking positions. The DoD is looking for experience in areas like cyber security, data analytics, and artificial |
| 1:46.5 | intelligence, which are becoming increasingly significant for national security. |
| 1:51.5 | The details of the program are still being worked out, but here to tell us more is |
| 1:55.3 | our reporter Heather Somerville. Heather, why do they want to bring these folks in? |
| 1:59.7 | Underpinning this effort is the need by the Defense Department to have greater access to all the various people skills that are out there in the country. |
| 2:11.5 | And so this gets beyond technology, but starting with technology, |
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