Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, August 26. I'm Margaret

Taleb, in for Nyla Boudou. Here's what we're watching today. Retailers tackle

the shipping crisis. Plus, Afghanistan's all-women robotics team talks to us for

Mexico City about what's next. But first, the White House Cybersecurity call to

action is today's one big thing. In the middle of messy evacuations from

Afghanistan and just before meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, President

Biden held a cybersecurity summit with tech and business leaders at the White

House yesterday. One of the leaders there was Arvin Krishnan, the chairman and

chief executive officer of IBM. And I'm with Arvin now at IBM headquarters in

Washington. Social distance, of course. Arvin, thanks for taking the time.

My pleasure to be here with you, Margaret. Did you have a chance to speak

personally with the president at the summit? And in the middle of everything

that's going on, why is cybersecurity so important that there had to be a summit

about it now? His time with all of us was in a group setting where

there were about, I think, 30 of us in the room all told, including half a dozen

cabinet members, that in the fact that they could convene 25 odd CEOs across

different industries and at least imply that there will be more coordination

and more of a holistic effort across both government and private industry,

I think is energizing. I've heard from you and from other CEOs

that there are thousands or maybe tens of thousands of unfilled jobs in this

area and no capacity to fill them. I wish it was only tens of thousands.

There are half a million unfulfilled jobs in cyber. So that's a question of

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