Security News > 2021 > August > Big tech proud as punch about cameos in Joe Biden's security theatre

US President Joe Biden staged a cyber security summit at the White House, and it's produced quick results in the form of big tech making vague promises about stuff they think will improve the nation's security.

The premise of the event was Biden's belief that America can't go on being hurt by ransomware, state-backed disinformation naughtiness, and other forms of infosec-driven attacks, but can only sort it out with the help of private enterprise because the government can't address security alone.

The event saw more than 30 bigwigs from big tech, academia, finance, insurance, and the education sector talk about how to improve security.

At one point attendees broke into three working groups - one on critical infrastructure resilience, another on building enduring cyber security, and a third on the cyber security workforce.

Apple also promised to step up on authentication, with "a new program to drive continuous security improvements throughout the technology supply chain" that will see it "Drive the mass adoption of multi-factor authentication, security training, vulnerability remediation, event logging, and incident response" among its suppliers.

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.

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