DHS Leadership Talk Cybersecurity
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Tim Maurer is a senior counselor for cybersecurity to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Jennifer Daskal serves as deputy general counsel at DHS focused on cybersecurity. And Eric Goldstein serves as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity for CISA, DHS's cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. They joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about what the Biden administration's priority is in cybersecurity domestically, how DHS is using its new authorities that it has received in the National Defense Authorization Act, how CISA has grown as an agency and what success looks like if the administration pursues its goals effectively.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | We are not a law enforcement agency. |
| 0:36.5 | We are, except for a very narrow context. |
| 0:39.0 | We are not a regulator. |
| 0:40.4 | We are focused on helping network defenders across this country secure their organizations |
| 0:46.4 | from cybersecurity threats. |
| 0:47.7 | And I think that that purity of purpose really gives us an important mission and a significant |
| 0:54.2 | challenge to address this country. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast April 23rd 2021. |
| 1:04.4 | Tim Marr is senior counselor for cybersecurity to the secretary of Homeland Security. |
| 1:10.6 | Jen Daskel serves as deputy general counsel at DHS, focused on cybersecurity and Eric Goldstein |
| 1:18.3 | serves as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity for CISA, DHS's cybersecurity |
| 1:26.3 | and infrastructure security agency. |
| 1:29.7 | Together they joined the LawFair podcast in what has to be the most complicated recording |
| 1:36.6 | we've ever done. |
| 1:38.0 | Part of it, the part with Tim Marr and Eric Goldstein was done before a live audience. |
| 1:45.0 | The other part with Jen Daskel was done separately and we knitted it all together so that it |
| 1:51.9 | sounds like they were all in the same room talking to an audience. |
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