After White House meeting, Google will spend $10B over five years and train 100K IT and data workers, Apple pledges supply chain security improvements, and more

- The White House hosted a cybersecurity summit with CEOs in sectors ranging from tech to insurance.

CNBC 2021-08-26 Lauren Feiner

Context & Ripple Effects

The commitments convert the previously reported planned CEO cybersecurity meeting into specific corporate actions: Google has attached spending and workforce training targets, while Apple has identified supply-chain security as its response.

The summit also extends a longer White House pattern of bringing major technology companies into government problem-solving, from an earlier push for private-sector personnel to serve in government to a later meeting with security and network providers on state-sponsored and criminal hacking.

First-order effects

Google commits $10 billion over five years to cybersecurity initiatives and to train 100,000 IT and data workers, putting capital and workforce development behind its summit response.
Apple is immediately accountable for the supply-chain security improvements it pledged following the White House meeting.

Second-order effects

The White House gains concrete private-sector commitments to point to as it presses technology and insurance executives to take a larger role in protecting infrastructure.
Google's training pledge makes cybersecurity workforce capacity a visible part of corporate security commitments, alongside product and supply-chain measures from companies such as Apple.

Third-order effects

If White House convenings continue to produce named commitments, cybersecurity policy will increasingly be shaped through recurring public-private coordination rather than government requests alone.
Repeated engagement with platforms, network providers and security specialists would make corporate security posture a more direct component of national infrastructure policy.

The trend: Cybersecurity is becoming a public-private policy arena in which White House meetings seek operational commitments from major technology companies.

Discussion

@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
Thank you @POTUS for convening a critical conversation on cybersecurity. Microsoft will invest $20 billion to advance our security solutions over the next 5 years, $150 million to help US government agencies upgrade protections, and expand our cybersecurity training partnerships.
@sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x
Glad to join @POTUS at the White House Cybersecurity Meeting today to discuss how to strengthen private-public cooperation. Google will provide tech training for 100,000 Americans and invest $10B to tackle this important issue that impacts us all. https://blog.google/...
@patrickwardle Patrick Wardle on x
✅ Google: “We're committing $10 billion to advance cybersecurity” ✅ Microsoft: “[We] will invest $20 billion to advance our security solutions” ❌ Apple: Appeals case it lost against Corellium
@markgurman Mark Gurman on x
Sounds like something Apple was of course already doing but just pinned to the meeting https://twitter.com/...
@kifleswing Kif on x
Apple will create a new program to improve supply chain security after Tim Cook participated in a group meeting with Biden about cyber (GOOG and MSFT are saying they will spend billions to improve cybersecurity) https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rlove Robert Love on x
Critical infrastructure. Great to see! https://twitter.com/...
@thomasortk Thomas Kurian on x
The last 18 months have delivered unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. We look forward to supporting @POTUS and the Administration's cybersecurity agenda and helping accelerate the government's journey to securing the software supply chain. https://blog.google/...
@lutherlowe Luther Lowe on x
Tell me you're desperate to mitigate antitrust scrutiny without telling me you're desperate to mitigate antitrust scrutiny. https://twitter.com/...
@kent_walker Kent Walker on x
Cyber attacks are endangering people and governments around the world. At @POTUS's White House cybersecurity meeting today, we committed to spending $10 billion to advance work on cybersecurity. https://blog.google/...
@camilleesq @camilleesq on x
Governments and businesses are at a watershed moment in addressing cybersecurity. Cyber attacks are increasingly endangering valuable data and critical infrastructure... governments and companies are both facing key challenges https://blog.google/...
@secmayorkas Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on x
The escalating cyber threats we face require a whole-of-nation effort. Today @POTUS brought together key leaders from government, industry, and education to find innovative solutions to complex cybersecurity problems: https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
@viacristiano Cristiano Lima on x
New: A bomb suspect live-streamed on Facebook by the Capitol, and clips circulated on Twitter & YouTube It struck a nerve on the Hill, where lawmakers are looking into the incident & how social media responded https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@dnvolz Dustin Volz on x
Biden says cybersecurity is “the core national security challenge we are facing” during opening remarks at today's summit. https://www.wsj.com/...
@quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
Meanwhile over in @ajassy's world: he meets with the president but doesn't get included in the photo of the event. I'm also unclear as to what Amazon has to do to “step up security” here... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@castrotech Daniel Castro on x
Better late than never. “Wednesday's summit is the first high-profile meeting Mr. Biden will have as president with the private sector to discuss cybersecurity.” https://www.wsj.com/...
@mcuban Mark Cuban on x
This is more important than people realize https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@typemrt Maurice Turner on x
4️⃣ How will you work to harmonize federal, state, local #regulations on data security, consumer privacy, and incident reporting that impact the ability of tech companies to operate consistently and competitively?
@oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x
“Lawmakers are reexamining how tech companies should handle violent material in emergency situations after the political tirade of a bomb threat suspect thrust the Capitol into chaos as it streamed on Facebook Live,” @viaCristiano reports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@profkatejudge Kate Judge on x
It's great to see Biden making cybersecurity a priority, and bringing together an appropriately diverse group to address it. It's too big and multi-faceted a challenge for the government or private sector or any single industry to tackle on its own. https://www.wsj.com/...
@digiphile Alex Howard on x
“We need to transition to where technology is built securely by default, we bake in security by design,” the @WhiteHouse official said. “We don't buy a car & then buy the air bag separately. We need to know we're buying secure tech” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Should be o…
@snlyngaas Sean Lyngaas on x
Tech and energy executives get an hour with Biden today to talk cybersecurity/ransomware as part of a big White House effort to raise the bar on secure software development. @timstarks has the low-down, w/ a contro from me: https://www.cyberscoop.com/...
@campuscodi Catalin Cimpanu on x
“Security technology is also a growing business for the Redmond company, generating more than $10 billion in annual revenue” https://twitter.com/...

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