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🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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*PLEASE NOTE: This interview was taped last week, before nationwide protests in response to the death of George Floyd began.*
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Chris Krebs speaks with Michael Morell about securing the operations and data of businesses and government agencies as they have adopted teleworking and other protocols amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Krebs also explains how foreign adversaries and hackers have targeted vaccine and treatment research at health care institutions across the country. Morell and Krebs review the preparations being made to protect the 2020 presidential election and discuss the interference campaigns expected from foreign adversaries.
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to intelligence matters ad-free on Amazon music. Download the app today |
0:08.4 | This is intelligence matters with former acting director of the CIA Michael Morrell brought to you by |
0:15.0 | Lockheed Martin your mission is ours a |
0:18.4 | joint advisory with the FBI has |
0:22.4 | formerly accused Beijing of |
0:25.3 | attempting to steal COVID-19 research and data |
0:30.0 | What can you tell us about that threat? Is it all about a vaccine or is it broader than that? |
0:34.8 | You know my concern here from a cyber |
0:38.4 | security resilience perspective is |
0:41.2 | These are sometimes organizations that are not fortunate 100 fortune 500 with well |
0:46.2 | Capitalized security teams CIO |
0:49.5 | Siso shops |
0:50.5 | On some cases they they just don't have the same resources and therefore any sort of intrusion could be disruptive |
0:57.2 | To the overall effort |
1:00.1 | Is it just the Chinese or is it other governments as well? |
1:04.4 | You know if you're not doing it, you're not trying planning this point |
1:07.4 | We do expect every every order every every every intelligent service to be in the mix here |
1:12.4 | And that's kind of the thing about a pandemic right is that it's not just one or two countries affected |
1:17.4 | It is truly a global event to every country's experience in COVID and in different ways, but but they're all experiencing |
1:25.4 | Campaigns have always been on the radar |
1:31.3 | For foreign intelligence services on the election side the infrastructure side rather again |
1:36.8 | We've got a better |
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