ICYMI: App Security Project Event Highlights Importance of Cybersecurity

For Immediate Release                                                                               Contact: Abigail Graham: (202) 417-7235

October 26, 2022                                                                                                         

Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the App Security Project – a project of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation – hosted a cybersecurity panel, entitled The Tricks and Treats of Cybersecurity. The App Security Project’s Executive Director, Patrick Hedger, moderated the panel with featured guests, Lt. General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Pence; Shane Tews, Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute; and Brandon Pugh, Resident Senior Fellow with R Street Institute.

Lt. General (Ret.) Kellogg began by discussing the rise of foreign adversaries in the tech space, “[The US] used to be the leading producer of technology. Now we’re finding that most are foreign. We have to be concerned about the tech transfer to foreign adversaries.”

Tews followed by acknowledging that users and policymakers alike need to understand the threats in this increasingly digital world, “[Your phone] is a transmission device and it works both ways.”

The panel also focused heavily on the impact current legislative and regulatory proposals would have on American cybersecurity, especially as it relates to app marketplaces. Pugh expressed great concern with a number of them. “My concerns with current legislation [are] that it negatively impacts cybersecurity and the myriad alternatives that we should be pursuing instead.”

To watch the virtual event, click here.

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Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy.