Post-Cybersecurity Summit, CompTIA CEO Shares Future Outlook
“I am very appreciative of the White House for convening the summit with technology leaders from across the country to increase partnerships between the public and private sectors in an effort to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity framework and boost protections…
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of consumer data,” CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux said in a statement released Tuesday. Thibodeaux’s comments follow his participation in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection last week, which he says “provided companies, advocacy organizations and the administration an opportunity to share concerns and strategies for developing a more robust and effective system for sharing data and thwarting future threats.” Though organizations have invested heavily in technology solutions, “technology alone is not the cure-all,” because “security assurance depends on human actions and knowledge,” he said. “To be truly effective in preventing and combating security threats, organizations need to take the further step by spreading security awareness and knowledge from a select group of IT staff through the entire organization, from the clerk in the mail room to the CEO in the corner office.” CompTIA will continue to work with lawmakers to pass legislation to “provide liability protection to the private sector,” and to “pass federal legislation that streamlines the data breach notification process,” Thibodeaux said.