2024 Cybersecurity Symposium: Protecting the United States and European Union From Cyber Threats

DUFFY: You all came out in the rain. Thank you for that. Does anyone else live on Capitol Hill? Is it just me? Anybody else? It was an adventure. I had not one, not two, but three motorcades this morning, my friends, which is my D.C. record. It was very exciting to have launched the day with a new PR.

So good morning and welcome to the first of two sessions today at our sort of mini cyber symposium. This morning I am delighted to welcome Rob Lee, the CEO and co-founder of Dragos; Phil Venables, the chief information security officer for Google Cloud, as well as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and a CFR member; Tarah Wheeler, our senior fellow for global cyber policy, as well as the CEO and founder of Red Queen Dynamics.

I wanted to start by asking each of our panelists to just give us a brief explanation of what they do in this particular space, how they came to it, and how they see themselves in this space, because I think that sometimes for those who don’t come from cybersecurity it can feel like a sort of...

EDELMAN: Good morning. Good morning and welcome back to the second session of the Council on Foreign Relations Cybersecurity Symposium on protecting the U.S. and EU from cyber threats.

I’m David Edelman from MIT, and I’ll be your presenter for this on-the-record session—on-the-record session, which we all know—on transatlantic cooperation between the U.S. and EU on the Cyber Trust Mark, which we’re going to get into in just a second.

We could not be more fortunate today to have two very distinguished guests at the absolute forefront of these issues with us today. Joining us from Brussels, Roberto Viola is the director-general for communications networks, content and technology at the European Commission; and joining us from I think about 600 feet east of here is Anne Neuberger—who I had the pleasure of serving alongside in part of her long and distinguished U.S. government career—is currently serving as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology.

So we’re going to discuss for about thirty minutes here among us, and I would invite members to think of their questions now because we’ll try to reserve a full thirty minutes for questions...