Amazon, Apple & Microsoft CEOs meet President Biden to talk all things cybersecurity
Top tech CEOs gather to meet the President
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Executives from some of America’s biggest and most influential technology companies are heading to the White House to discuss cybersecurity with US President Joe Biden.
Citing White House sources that wished to stay anonymous,ReutersreportedAmazonCEO Andy Jassy,AppleCEOTim Cook, andMicrosoftChief Executive Satya Nadella will be among those attending the meet.
Executives fromGoogle, IBM, Southern Company and JPMorgan Chase have all been invited, the sources claimed, but final participation has not yet been confirmed.
An all-out cyber war is currently raging in the digital realm, with Russia, China, the US, Israel, and other nation-states, all accusing each other of various attacks and incidents.
The recent ransomware attack against major meat supplier JBS, which ended up with the victimpaying $11 million in ransom, was blamed on Russian state-sponsored attackers REvil, by the White House. In similar vein, theattack against Colonial Pipeline, in which the oil distributor paid $4.4 million, was blamed on DarkSide, a cybercriminal group not directly affiliated with the Russian government, but still located in Russia and of Russian origin, given that ransomware itself is in Russian.
A malicious program called Stuxnet, which was discovered in 2010, and which wreaked havoc within Iran’s nuclear power program, was later said to have been jointly built by the governments of the United States and Israel.
Performance controls
Late last month, President Biden signed a national security memorandum which launched a new public-private initiative to create “performance controls” for cybersecurity, at some of the country’s most critical infrastructure companies, such as water treatment and electrical power plans.
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Called the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative, the move is described as “a voluntary, collaborative effort between the Federal Government and the critical infrastructure community to significantly improve the cybersecurity of these critical systems.”
It does that “by encouraging and facilitating deployment of technologies and systems that provide threat visibility, indications, detection, and warnings, and that facilitate response capabilities for cybersecurity in essential control system and operational technology networks.”
Via:Reuters
Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he’s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He’s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.
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