Second act for cybersecurity commissioners: Pritzker, Palmisano, Nadella form nonprofit
Some members and staff of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity are seeking to advance the commission’s goals through a nonprofit that will provide cyber risk-management best practices for small and medium-sized businesses, according to an announcement Wednesday. The Cyber Readiness Institute was launched to help the private sector “better address cybersecurity risk management across value chains, with a particular emphasis on support for small and medium-sized enterprises,” according to the announcement. The four co-chairs of the institute are former IBM CEO and commission Deputy Chairman Sam Palmisano; commission member and MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who took over from commission member and Microsoft Vice President Peter Lee; and Penny Pritzker, who as Obama’s secretary of Commerce stood the commission up. It will be run by commission Executive Director Kiersten Todt. “The commission was the launching pad and the foundation stone” for the institute, she told CyberScoop. She said she’d […]
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