Brendan Goode: That's a tough question, because we've had several successes at the department over the past year. I'd like to pick one that's specific to me, which is the Einstein 3 Accelerated or E3A program.
JIm Flyzik: I think we've all heard about that [inaudible 00:14:00].
Brendan Goode: Correct. For those not familiar with it, it's focused on providing intrusion prevention capabilities to be able to do the real time identification and disruption of malicious activity affecting our federal civilian dot gov networks. About 18 months or so ago, we made a very strategic shift at a time, realizing that public and private sector innovation was really setting a standard for our cyber security that we wanted to take fuller advantage of. At that shift point, we decided that there was a closer partnership managed security vendors. Coupling that with the information that we have from the government side, from our networks from partnering with communities like DOD and our federal departments and agencies, that we combine those two, we'd be able to deliver an efficient and effective capability. Last summer, we were excited when we had our first opportunity to protect our first agency inside the federal government. Since then, we've ramped up to be able to cover, now, a quarter of the federal government. It really showed what we felt could happen, which was that ability to be able to deploy rapidly, be able to take quick advantage of private sector capabilities and be able to start defending dot gov networks. We have a pretty long queue of agencies having seen the benefits ready to turn on over the reminder of 2014 as well. With that, there's a second program that we're pretty excited about, which was how do we take what we were doing and make it available to the critical infrastructure as well, enhance cyber security services or ECS. Also, it mentions part of the executive order and the presidential directive, what's that program or effort? How do we institute policies that allows us to transition our knowledge and information to private sector and them use that information and let them use that information through commercial service providers and start defending critical infrastructure companies? In the past year, setting the policy, bringing companies on board, and now creating a base that can take advantage of the same services we do for ourselves I think has been [inaudible 00:02:16].
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