White House officials met with Google, AT&T, Cloudflare, Mandiant, and others in Silicon Valley to discuss combating state-sponsored hackers and criminal gangs
As cyber threats from countries like Russia multiply, officials met with corporate executives to pitch their vision for “operational collaboration.”
The companies in the room — including Google, AT&T, Cloudflare, VMware, Mandiant, & Cisco — don't need much prodding to take cyber seriously. But Mayorkas & his colleagues used the mtg to hone their argument that collaboration w/ govt can benefit companies & overall ecosystem. ht…
At the 90-minute meeting, co-organized by investment firms NightDragon and Kleiner Perkins, Biden officials emphasized that cyber is a board-level issue, gathered feedback about the JCDC (which some participants are part of), and sought input for future projects. https://twitter.…
Exclusive: @SecMayorkas, @CISAJen, & @ncdinglis met w/ 13 tech firms yesterday in Palo Alto to push for deeper cooperation against hackers: https://www.politico.com/... “This is about taking a spirit of partnership and moving into actual operational collaboration,” Mayorkas told …