Last week, President Barack Obama visited Stanford University
for the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer
Protection. The summit focused on fostering greater sharing of
threat information between the government and the private
sector—a move the Administration hopes will prod Congress to
pass cybersecurity legislation.
The President also issued an Executive Order in support of this
data sharing. This first-of-its-kind cyber summit capped a
week-long effort by the White House to boost the nation's
cyberdefenses.
The key highlights from the summit are discussed below in three
parts.
Collaboration is the Key to Cybersecurity
The summit's first set of speakers and panelists repeatedly
stressed the importance of information-sharing to cybersecurity.
Both public and private sector leaders discussed the future of
collaboration, the economic benefits of cybersecurity and the
tension between sharing and privacy. The first session concluded
with the
