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Mike Rounds: “Every day we delay modernizing is a day we strengthen their…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Rounds Gives Opening Remarks at Senate Cybersecurity Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 02:32

The result is a technical debt problem of historic proportions in both hardware and software. Our adversaries are not blind to this. Not surprisingly, they are taking advantage of this blunder. Every day we delay modernizing is a day we strengthen their hand in the cyber domain. as we modernize. Speed without security is not an improvement. We must be disciplined about not punting today's problems to the future. That means patching what we have while building with foundational security baked in. (02:32–02:38)

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