Army Sgt. 1st Class Jose
Ibarra at the DoD News offers the below piece:
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2018 —
President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to serve as the next director of the
National Security Agency today promised to defend the nation and secure the
future as he testified before lawmakers during his confirmation hearing here.
Lt. Gen. Paul M. Nakasone (seen in the above official photo),
the commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command, spoke before the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, which is considering his nomination to succeed
retiring Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers as NSA director.
Ensuring Security
“The safeguard of our
national secrets, the safeguard of our capabilities is one of the most
important things the next director will continue to address,” Nakasone said,
“My intent is to look to ensure the security of the enterprise and the security
of the network initiatives that NSA has undertaken to date are timely, are
accurate, are on target to ensure that we continue to have the safeguard of our
national treasures,” he said.
He emphasized two elements
that will help ensure national security.
The first focus, he said, is
“continuing to hire great people that work at the NSA, not only hiring them,
but also training them, developing them and ensuring that their long-term
careers with the NSA are well-tended-to.”
Secondly, he said, the agency
needs to continue to look at control mechanisms to provide the ability to
safeguard networks and secure the environment.
If confirmed to the post,
Nakasone will assume the current dual-hat arrangement of leading both U.S.
Cyber Command and the NSA.
Strong Public-Private Partnership
The general emphasized the
importance of working with the private sector on technology to secure the
future and to continue to attract the best and the brightest to serve.
“If confirmed, I know that a
strong public-private partnership will be needed to ensure this country
benefits from the leading-edge technology being developed and implemented today
and into the future,” Nakasone said, adding that the agency’s mission and
technological advances are what sets the NSA apart from the public sector and
helps to attract young talent.
“We have to continue broad
abilities to continue to recruit from a very diverse population -- academia,
and industry, [and] within inside our government,” Nakasone said, noting he
admires the agency’s ability to look at a broad range of capabilities,
including people who have disabilities, and to provide the necessary
infrastructure that will support them.
Securing the Future
Nakasone addressed security
concerns ranging from Russian and Chinese cyber threats to private-sector
encryption platforms to soldiers wearing geolocation devices. He also touched
on insider threats and how to reconsider looking at networks, data and weapons
systems.
“Ten, 15, 20 years ago, we
were concerned about what we said on phones. Today we’re concerned about what
our soldiers wear, where they’re talking, where they’re able to be monitored,”
he said. “This is indicative of how we have to approach the future. We are
technologically informed -- we also have to be informed for operational
security as well.”
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