DOJ Assistant Attorney General on Fighting Cyber Threats

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The U.S. government has delayed public disclosures of cyber incidents several times since new rules came into force last December, according to Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. He spoke with WSJ reporter Dustin Volz at WSJ Tech Live: Cybersecurity on June 6 about the government's reason for granting companies exemption to delay disclosing hacks. They also discussed the heightened risk of cyber attacks. Zoe Thomas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:20.0	It's Friday, July 5th.
0:22.0	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.0	At W.S.J.
0:26.0	's Tech Live Cybersecurity event last month,
0:29.0	Matthew Olson, Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, discussed the heightened risk of cyber attacks and national security threats facing the U.S.
0:39.2	Olson spoke with our reporter Dustin Volts about how the government is handling these
0:43.6	threats and how companies should respond. Here are highlights from their
0:48.1	conversation starting with Dustin.
0:51.8	Just looking at the last three three years or so you know Justin.
0:52.6	Just looking at the last three years or so, you know, roughly,
0:55.4	what do you think about in terms of how the landscape has evolved
0:57.8	from the National Security Cyber Threat
0:59.6	perspective?
1:00.4	And how has law enforcement's attempts to address or tackle those problems also shift or evolve?
1:05.7	Yeah, I've been in this job at the Justice Department for just about two and a half years and
1:10.0	what I've seen over the past couple years is the very concerning trend lines continue in terms of
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