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25 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Two dozen CEOs and education leaders are meeting with Biden and his natsec team today to discuss ways to improve U.S. cybersecurity.

Expect announcements on critical infrastructure security and workforce development.

We've got a preview here: subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/202…
Meeting will start at 2pm and have three phases:

1. Opening discussion with POTUS
2. Three breakout sessions led by senior officials (see next tweet)
3. Concluding discussion led by National Cyber Director Chris Inglis and NSC's Anne Neuberger
Breakouts:

1. Critical infrastructure resilience, led by @SecMayorkas & @SecGranholm, w/ energy, water & financial cos.

2. Building "enduring" cybersecurity, led by @SecRaimondo & @SBAIsabel, w/ tech & insurance cos.

3. Cyber workforce, led by Inglis, w/ education leaders.
A senior administration official briefing reporters Tuesday was vague about the announcements that companies will make at the meeting, but they indicated that some will focus on critical infrastructure security and expanding the cyber workforce.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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2 Sep
Scoop: Senate HSGAC is working on a bill that combines the House's industry-friendly cyber incident reporting legislation w/ a bunch of programs to tackle ransomware.

Raises Qs about what happens to Warner/Rubio/Collins bill, which industry doesn't like.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2021/0…
The big stuff in the HSGAC bill:

* The House Homeland incident reporting legislation, with some tweaks and additions
* "Due diligence requirement" for companies facing ransom demands
* Ransomware task force
* "Ransomware vulnerability warning pilot program"
Due diligence req:

Before paying a ransom, a company would have to determine whether it could recover from the attack “through other means,” including by seeing if experts have published a decryption tool that works for them.

It would have to report to CISA on this process.
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Eric Geller Profile picture
2 Sep
Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, is about to speak at the White House press briefing.
Neuberger: "We want to take a moment to encourage organizations to be on guard for malicious cyber activity in advance of the holiday weekend. To be clear, we have no specific threat information or information regarding attacks this weekend, but what we do have is history."
Neuberger notes that history shows that hackers often target companies over holiday weekends, when security operations centers may be understaffed or otherwise unprepared.
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Eric Geller Profile picture
1 Sep
The House Homeland Security Committee is about to start a hearing with industry representatives testifying about its draft cyber incident reporting bill.

homeland.house.gov/activities/hea…
As I've noted, the latest draft of the House bill pares back some of the language to accommodate industry concerns. For example, it now says CISA can't require reporting any sooner than 72 hours after an incident.
Industry witnesses will implicitly criticize the Senate bill.

BPI: 24-hr reporting deadline "would distract from critical work" & lead to "premature and likely erroneous" reports homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/…

ITI: Limit requirement to "verified" breaches homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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Eric Geller Profile picture
25 Aug
Embargo has lifted on WH cyber meeting announcements.

* Microsoft: offering $150m worth of security help to govt agencies

* Google: donating $100m to help orgs that secure open-source software

* Amazon: free security tokens for AWS users

* IBM: cyber training for 150k people ImageImageImageImage
Other announcements from these companies:

* Google promising to connect 100k Americans w/ its free IT certificate programs & boost 10m Americans' digital literacy

* Amazon publishing its employee cyber training curricula

* IBM partnering w/ HBCUs on career development
IBM's CEO also called for public companies to formally report on their cybersecurity practices in the same way that many of them currently report on their environmental footprints and social responsibility programs.
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Eric Geller Profile picture
25 Aug
"Pool spray" photo op before Biden's cyber meeting with corporate and education leaders is about to start:
Here's what to expect from the meeting, which is really a series of meetings:
Biden: “We've seen time and again how the technologies we rely on, from our cell phones to pipelines to the electric grid, can become targets of hackers and criminals. But at the same time, our skilled cybersecurity workforce is not growing fast enough keep pace.”
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19 Aug
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