Homeland Security official: How to get Silicon Valley to stop building dating apps and solve real problems
Reginald Brothers, the Department of Homeland Security’s undersecretary for science and technology, shared an anecdote at the Concordia Summit in New York on Tuesday that managed to connect Silicon Valley innovation, cybersecurity threats, and… dating apps.
Brothers was on a cybersecurity panel with former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, retired US General Keith Alexander, and Dr. Greg Rattray, director of cyber partnerships for JPMorgan. The conversation turned toward the need for better collaboration and information-sharing between government departments and private sector businesses.
To solicit ideas and business proposals from tech entrepreneurs in places like “the Silicon Valleys and Austins and Bostons of our country,” Brothers and Homeland Security organized a Homeland Security Day in Menlo Park, Calif., in April. But it wasn’t as simple as creating a special day and then greeting a flood of willing tech developers; Brothers said one challenge was that, “our problem has to be somewhat aligned to their business case.”
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