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August 5, 2021 02:01 pm

US Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others To Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats

The U.S. government is enlisting the help of tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Google, to bolster the country's critical infrastructure defenses against cyber threats after a string of high-profile attacks. From a report: The Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday, is formally unveiling the initiative called the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. The effort will initially focus on combating ransomware and cyberattacks on cloud-computing providers, said Jen Easterly, director of the DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Ultimately, she said, it aims to improve defense planning and information sharing between government and the private sector. "This will uniquely bring people together in peacetime, so that we can plan for how we're going to respond in wartime," she said in an interview. Ms. Easterly was sworn in as CISA's director last month. She was previously a counterterrorism official in the Obama White House, and the commander of the Army's first cyber operations unit at the National Security Agency, America's cyberspy agency. Over the past year, ransomware attacks have disrupted large parts of daily life in the U.S. They have diverted ambulances, caused long lines at gas stations in the southeast, and disrupted the production of hot dogs and other meat products.

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