Adm Mike Mullen at Gartner Summit

What keeps Adm Mike Mullen up at night — from Gartner Risk & Security Summit 2013 keynote:

  1. National debt
  2. K-12 education system
  3. Political paralysis
  4. Cyber vulnerability, threats, and infrastructure
  5. Veterans health, education, & employment (1000 veterans leaving service every day, but only 100 being hired everyday)

More on cyber —

  • Adm Mullen went on to say that cyber risk is primary existential threat (ie potential to change way of life) to US.
  •  Calls partnership between presidents Obama and Xi most important bilateral relationship in world
  • Restated his belief in the assumption of breach approach to information security
  • On accountability, concerned accountability is not clear in cyber world. Wants to see leadership and accountability in social networking world.

 

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