Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 150 of the National Security Law podcast. It's Thursday, January 16th, 2020. We've been sworn in by the Chief Justice. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lodick. He's finally presiding over a trial for the first timeicentennial. By the way, it's really hard to say.

And spell. It's very hard to spell show title. This podcast cannot spell cessquicentennial.

Rather like it toasts. Yes. Yeah, but it's not just us today. We are really excited to have with us,

the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Chris Krebs. Chris, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having you guys.

It's really a treat to have you here.

You're in town, of course, because UT is co-hosting with the Atlantic Council, the Austin Regional of the Cyber 912.

It's a cybersecurity policy competition that the Atlantic Council has been curating for many years now and we were lucky

enough here at UT to begin hosting a and I guess a regional I'm calling it of that competition

and it's a lot load of fun right as we talk here there are 20 teams of students from all over the

country lots of Texas teams but many from further and far away.

And if they win, they go to the elite eight, right?

Exactly.

If they win, they get farther than the UT basketball team's been getting.

Oh, shots fired.

Yeah.

No, if they win, actually, it's kind of cool.

There's a cash prize here at this version of the competition.

Automatic acceptance into the national competition that Atlantic Council does in DC in March, and all three teams that make the finals also, and this is my favorite part, they get a little starter library of cybersecurity related books like Cliff Stolls, Cuckoo's Egg.

What else is in this year? Sandworm, of course, is in there.

And a few other, I think maybe perfect weapon and a few other good ones.

So anyways, Chris is keynoting this as we're done here.

We're basically doing this right before he has to go to the microphone.

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