The White House, located in the US state of Washington, will host an important meeting on behalf of technology security. American-based technology companies, especially Google’s parent company Alphabet and Apple, will come together at the White House today.
According to the news of Reuters, the agenda of the meeting includes the large-scale cyber attacks that the USA is exposed to in 2021. In this meeting, which will also be attended by government officials at the ministerial level, the White House management cooperated with technology companies. software security will evaluate. Identified problems and solutions will also be discussed.
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Apple, which has come to the fore with its record payment to developers in the past days, will this time open its safe for its employees.
Meta, who survived the crisis, also attends the meeting.
Among the companies that will attend the meeting, formerly Facebook, Meta Platforms, Inc. is also included. As it will be remembered, Meta survived great server-side difficulties in 2021, especially in October. On October 4, none of its services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were inaccessible for hours. In addition, the facebook.com domain name is also on sale for a short time.
However, the meeting held at the White House was mostly exposed to the USA last year. major cyber attacks will be reported. In the past months, a vulnerability was discovered in the open source software Log4j, which world-famous companies and organizations use to record data in their applications.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan sent a warning letter to the top executives of tech companies in December. Sullivan wrote in the letter that security vulnerabilities in open source software such as Log4j are for the US. is a major safety concern stated.
The security of open source software will be discussed at the meeting, which will be hosted by Anne Neuberger, the USA’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, in order to avoid similar problems. Among the technology companies that will attend the meeting IBM, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle there is. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Commerce will also participate.