The Atlantic dubbed July 8, 2015 “the day the computers betrayed us” as systems supporting the NYSE, United Airlines, and the Wall Street Journal all suffered crashes. Those events served as a fitting backdrop to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s remarks on cybersecurity at CSIS.

While administrators worked to get the systems back online, Johnson rushed to assure his audience that the outages were unrelated and stressed the DHS’s efforts to protect civilian and government data from security threats.