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President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry’s backyard – Fortune

Cybersecurity

President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry’s backyard – Fortune.

The president signed an executive order to encourage more sharing of information between companies about hacker attacks.

It may be Friday the 13th, but the White House is hoping a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection will bring a bit of much-needed luck to the gloomy cyberthreat landscape.

The summit kicked off Friday morning at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. and featured a who’s who of leaders from both public and private sectors: the secretaries of Homeland Security and Department of Commerce and the CEOs of Apple, American Express, Kaiser Permanente, AIG and Pacific Gas & Electric, to name a few.