Name: How Trump Can Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity
Uploaded: 2016-12-13
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: Leidos’ Angie Heise offers her take.

[ MUSIC ] I am the president of Leidos Civil. So my organization provides support to customers globally for software development, cyber security, energy. We support the scientists in Antarctica. We provide the supplies for the astronauts in the International Space Station. We help develop mission control software. We do cybersecurity for Fortune 500 companies. So I think everyone's interested in waiting to see what the new administration plans. [ MUSIC ] So one of the things he did mentioned recently and it's the area that I spent the last couple years focus on is cyber security for critical infrastructure, which is vitally important to our nation and is been a growing challenge For newly the government that for commercial client across the US. The honestly the globe and so I think that's an area certainly that is way force some a different support and maybe even not policies. There are constant service carry attacks and in long term operation. This rate that's something each individual company, each individual each individual piece of the government has been dealing with on regular basis. And we certainly hope that a lot of our clients do that but to be able to talk about it at maybe a little bit higher level and longer term. What do we wanna do as a nation to be able to fight off these attacks. I think would be a good conversation for us to have. [ MUSIC ] We absolutely need more technology and engineering on skills sets in our country. And I believe this year alone there's 200, 000 cyber security jobs that are gonna go unfilled. And we anticipate next year it's gonna be a million. And now it's a huge challenge for us, and I certainly know one of the things that we are very passionate about at Lidos is science and technology, engineering, mathematics, we are desperately trying to ensure that we get people out of high school and out of college that we're very passionate about those About those subjects, because there are tremendous opportunities from a career perspective. And our nation needs problem solvers that can actually take those skills and address some of our largest challenges. [ MUSIC ]