What keeps Adm Mike Mullen up at night — from Gartner Risk & Security Summit 2013 keynote:
- National debt
- K-12 education system
- Political paralysis
- Cyber vulnerability, threats, and infrastructure
- 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.