Roundtable on Securing Networks through Open Innovation

This week, as part of President Obama’s cybersecurity strategy, we hosted a roundtable discussion at the White House Conference Center with a broad range of cybersecurity innovators from the public, private, academic, and non-profit communities.

The intent was to explore ways to harness the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of the American people to ensure the United States, which led the world in developing the Internet economy, will be the first to secure the networks that support it. The roundtable participants focused on applying our model of open innovation, emphasizing the government’s role as “impatient convener,” on possible designs for a cyber challenge that would advance our goals for changing the game in cybersecurity. Ideas included applying gaming dynamics, tapping into a growing pool of STEM students, and encouraging entrepreneurs with promising ideas.