Shorts: FBI Director Wray on Combating Cyberthreats
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On Tuesday, Susan Hennessey interviewed FBI Director Chris Wray at the 2019 RSA Conference. They discussed about how the Director views the cyber threat landscape 18 months into his term, his concerns about the threats posed by Russia and China, what the FBI is doing to protect the 2020 elections, and more.
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| 0:29.9 | I'm Susan Hennessy and this is the LawFair podcast March 6th 2019. |
| 0:36.5 | On Tuesday I interviewed FBI Director Christopher Array at the 2019 RSA conference. |
| 0:42.5 | We discussed how the director views the cyber threat landscape 18 months into his term, |
| 0:47.2 | his concerns about the threats posed by Russia and China, what the FBI is doing to protect |
| 0:52.4 | the 2020 elections and more. |
| 0:55.1 | It's the LawFair podcast. |
| 0:56.7 | Shoo! |
| 0:57.7 | FBI Director Array on combating cyber threats. |
| 1:00.5 | FBI occupies a really interesting space in part because it plays roles across both national |
| 1:05.5 | security and criminal law enforcement areas. |
| 1:08.9 | You've been in the director's seat at the Bureau for a year and a half now. |
| 1:12.5 | So I want to start by getting a sense of your perspective on the landscape. |
| 1:16.3 | 18 months in, how do you view the cyber threat? |
| 1:19.1 | I would say that the, well I knew cyber was going to be probably our top priority in many |
| 1:24.4 | ways. |
| 1:25.4 | I think the scope, the breadth, the depth, the sophistication, the diversity of the threat |
| 1:32.8 | that we face now is unlike anything we've had in our lifetimes. |
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