[Infowarrior] - Meeting of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

[Richard Forno]

Meeting of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

https://cltc.berkeley.edu/commission-meeting/

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will meet Tuesday, June 21, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Chevron Auditorium at the International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley CA 94720.

The primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss the opportunities for and challenges to innovation and collaboration to strengthen cybersecurity in the digital economy.

The meeting will support detailed recommendations to strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors while protecting privacy, ensuring public safety and economic and national security, fostering discovery and development of new technical solutions, and bolstering partnerships between Federal, State, local, tribal and territorial governments and the private sector in the development, promotion, and use of cybersecurity technologies, policies, and best practices.  All sessions will be open to the public.

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This event is part of the Department of Commerce’s work convening the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The Commission is hosting five public meetings around the country to solicit input on various themes for their final report to the President later this year.

The non-partisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity is made up of leading thinkers from business, technology, and academia. The Commission’s members are:

— Tom Donilon, former Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor (Chair)

— Sam Palmisano, former CEO, IBM (Vice Chair)

— General Keith Alexander, CEO, IronNet Cybersecurity; former Director, National Security Agency; and former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command

— Annie Antón, Professor and Chair, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech

— Ajay Banga, President and CEO, MasterCard

— Steven Chabinsky, General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer, CrowdStrike

— Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh;former Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology

— Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

— Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

— Heather Murren, former member, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; co-founder, Nevada Cancer Institute

— Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer, Uber; former Chief Security Officer, Facebook

— Maggie Wilderotter, Executive Chairman, Frontier Communications

As described in an announcement from the White House, “The Commission is tasked with making detailed recommendations on actions that can be taken over the next decade to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections throughout the private sector and at all levels of Government, to protect privacy, to ensure public safety and economic and national security, and to empower Americans to take better control of their digital security.”

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Agenda

The agenda is expected to include:

— Introductions

— Panel discussions on addressing cybersecurity challenges to the digital economy

— Panel discussions on innovating and collaborating to secure the digital economy

— Conclusion

The final agenda will be posted on http://www.nist.gov/cybercommission.  Seating will be available for the public and media.

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https://cltc.berkeley.edu/commission-meeting/

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