Technology, financial, and education leaders commit to a wide range of initiatives to enhance the nation’s cybersecurity posture in collaboration with the Biden Administration.

Industry leaders from the technology, financial, and education sectors have pledged a wide range of private-sector initiatives to tackle the nation’s cybersecurity problems. Those efforts include increasing the cybersecurity talent pool, boosting security awareness, and better securing the software supply chain. Microsoft pledged $20 billion and Google pledge $10 billion to develop more advanced security solutions in areas such as security by design, zero-trust, software supply chain, and open-source software.
That announcement came at a meeting hosted by the Biden Administration yesterday where private sector leaders met with national security and cabinet team members to tackle the nation’s cybersecurity problems. Among the attendees from the government were:

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese
Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement Cedric Richmond
Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger
National Cyber Director Chris Inglis
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly

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