White House Discussion on Software security, Participant Apple, amazon, Google, IBM, Meta executives
White House, Joe Biden Ruler of the country has called a meeting for the discussion on the topic of ‘Software Security’.
Last year many countries faced several cyber-attacks including the USA, India, China, etc. Cybersecurity now has been the prior subject to be discussed in the light of the USA President Joe Biden.
Highlighted Facts
- Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday will be hosted by the deputy national security advisor.
- The administration of Joe Biden has always been at the top before making it’s in his concerns.
- The recently made software by SolarWinds has been breached by one hack.
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All the tech leading companies have attended a meeting, was scheduled on Thursday on the topic of Software Security and the venue of the meeting was the White House.
The National Security Advisor of the White House hosted the meeting where all the leading tech companies were being as a participant including Alphabet Head Google, IBM, Amazon, Apple, and Meta Executives are called.
As the USA has faced many cyber-attacks and due to the presence of such terror it’s the topmost priority of Joe Biden Government to include this subject in the serious concerns.
Jake Sullivan, the White House National Security Advisor in December send the latter to the Chief Executives of the tech firms when they found the security vulnerability in open space software called Log4j, organizations around the world use the application to log their data in their application.
“Key National Security Concern”
the security advisor Sullivan also noted that such type of open source software is highly used and maintained by volunteers.
Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber & Emerging Technology will host the meeting on Thursday and will discuss the concerns around the security of open source software and how it can be improved. The above information was published by the source of the White House.
Cybersecurity has always been a serious concern in the administration of Joe Biden. The administration has witnessed several cyberattacks which resulted in the divulging of important documents that consist the crucial information related to the security of the Nation.
The previous hack that was committed on the USA website of SolarWind and the obligations of such hack were imposed by the USA to Russia. The administration claimed that the Russian officials made such an act and gave access to information to thousands of companies and government offices that used its product.
The hacking was such severe as the hackers were got access to the US Treasury, Justice and Commerce department, and many other agencies.
The cyberattack, last year became so frequent that its impact could be seen in the form of the issuing Executive order last year by the US administration that created the review board and new software standards for government agencies.
