Big tech companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft have pledged billions of dollars to improve cybersecurity in the United States.
This step they took after the CEO was summoned to appear before President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday (25/8) yesterday. The billions of dollars will be used to improve cybersecurity in various sectors, including education and supply chains.
During the meeting, CEOs of technology companies were brought in to discuss various cyber attacks that have occurred in the US recently, which have occurred in various federal government agencies to the natural resource infrastructure sector.
"The reality is, most critical infrastructure is privately owned and operated, and the federal government can't solve this problem on its own," Biden said at the meeting.
Various steps taken by the technology company to improve cybersecurity include increasing the mass adoption of two-stage authentication, as Apple has done with a number of partners.
There is also a disbursement of funds to conduct cybersecurity training, how to respond to incidents, and fix security holes. Then Amazon will implement multi-factor authentication on all devices free of charge for all Amazon Web Services account holders.
They will also conduct training to raise cyber attack awareness, which they previously did for employees, to the public at no cost.
Meanwhile, Google will spend more than $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen US cybersecurity and software supply chains. Google also promised to train more than 100,000 Americans in data analytics and IT support through the Career Certificate program.
And Microsoft will invest USD 20 billion in the next five years, with similar promises to Google.
Reported earlier, a number of CEOs of technology companies were summoned to appear before president Joe Biden at the White House. They include Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Apple CEO Tim Cook, IBM CEO and Chair Arvind Krshna, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.