{"id":39309,"date":"2021-08-30T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39309"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:41:28","slug":"biden-rallies-the-cyber-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39309","title":{"rendered":"Biden rallies the cyber troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hsqmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqhnfnq_cjctccpdpftlphplgqcm.html?a=&amp;b=41863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hsqmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqhnfnq_cjctccpdpftlphplgqcm.html?a%3D%26b%3D41863&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630452134609000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGaE6PoFPBdCGLKZ5cKVc6nDGhvpA\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0and more than two dozen key leaders from a variety of industries this week has increased momentum for plans to quickly address rising cyber threats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Top companies involved<\/strong>: Leaders from the fields of tech, energy, insurance and education attended the event Wednesday, including the CEOs of Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, JPMorgan and Bank of America.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For the Biden administration, the summit also served to highlight the federal government&#8217;s efforts to tackle cybersecurity challenges following months of massive attacks on public and private groups that have pinched key industries while laying bare the scourge of cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Industry leaders weigh in<\/strong>: \u201cLook, there is nothing like a summit convened by the president to focus everyone\u2019s minds, and I think that is the benefit of doing something like this,\u201d Chris Padilla, the vice president of government and regulatory affairs at IBM who attended the meeting, told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt elevates importance, it commits very senior-level people to follow up and do something, and good for them for doing it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting between\u00a0President Biden\u00a0and more than&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39310,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39309\/revisions\/39310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}