Brendan Goode: Sure. First of all, it’s always fun doing these panels because you continue to see common themes being shared.
JIm Flyzik: Really, yeah. I’m taking little notes here when I hear common themes and hopefully at the end maybe address some of those.
Brendan Goode: Absolutely. And that actually hits to a couple of common themes which is continue a healthy dialogue between government and industry. Streaks and in partnerships, our ability to collaborate, strengthening the cybersecurity posture raising that floor up so that we’re working at a baseline whether it’s the best practices or at least instituting set of capabilities, and continuing to emphasize the importance of cybersecurity and investments themselves.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah.
Brendan Goode: Particular to my organization as an engineering organization the goals and priorities for us are -- but engineering.
JIm Flyzik: Sure.
Brendan Goode: Delivering capabilities using some of the most advanced tools and capabilities and information that we have to secure our federal cybersecurity partners but also to be able to share with commercial sectors so they can take advantage of what we’ve learned.
The second is the human element, building capacity inside the organization, the resourcing it making sure that we have the best talent to take on some of these most complex problems growing in organization. To give you an idea just in my organization alone in 2009 there was three of us in the office.
JIm Flyzik: Wow.
Brendan Goode: We became quite adaptive to everything from building large system architecture to changing toner and printers.
JIm Flyzik: Sure.
Brendan Goode: Today where we are we over 100 personnel just in the engineering group along. And the third is setting that vision, how do we get proactive -- one is not just building solutions to react to issues of the day but setting my vision for the next three to five years where we need to take the organization to start looking at more proactive measures whether, you know, leveraging on the signature side of the hospitals we’re looking at behavioral and how we’re going to get in front of some of the adversaries.
JIm Flyzik: Excellent.
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