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President Biden will reportedly meet with Cook, Nadella, and other tech leaders to discuss US cybersecurity

August 24, 2021

Via: TechSpot

Bloomberg reports that Tim Cook, Satay Nadella, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy are the big names attending tomorrow afternoon’s meeting. They could be joined by Google’s Sundar Pichai, who has been invited, along with execs from IBM, and JPMorgan Chase. Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning will also be attending.

According to a senior official familiar with the event, the surge in online attacks against US organizations over the last year will be the main topic of conversation. Top of the agenda will likely be the attack on Kaseya’s VSA system management platform by the Russia-based REvil hacker gang, DarkSide’s ransomware hit on the Colonial Pipeline, and the massive SolarWinds hack that affected both companies and government agencies alike.

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