Google and Microsoft will invest in cybersecurity

Both companies committed to Joe Biden to promote different initiatives related to this area

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, obtained the commitment of several of the main technology companies in the country to promote different initiatives to improve national cybersecurity, including the commitment of Google and Microsoft to invest 30,000 million dollars in the coming years, according to the report from the White House.

In this regard, the US president held a meeting with leading representatives of the private sector and education to discuss the necessary effort to address the cybersecurity threats facing the country, as highlighted by recent incidents of High profile cybersecurity registered.

In this sense, the White House emphasized that cyber threats affect companies of all sizes, as well as towns and cities in all corners of the country and the pockets of middle-class families, so “cybersecurity is a imperative of national and economic security.”

After the meeting, the White House announced that the companies had made a series of commitments, including the investment of 10 billion dollars over the next five years by Google to expand “zero trust” programs, helping to ensure the software supply chain and enhance open source security.

K. Tovar

Source: The Universe

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