These attacks pose a significant risk to Information Technology Sector organizations (including telecommunications providers), Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Sector organizations, and other critical infrastructure organizations.

Meanwhile, China continues to leverage the broader technology supply chain to further its aims, by exploiting vulnerabilities of the devices that government and critical infrastructure networks rely on. Thus it is no surprise that the US has proposed a ban on Huawei and ZTE future sales in the US. As recent events confirm, China will leverage every possible measure to coerce or steal technology information, even going so far as to offer a quarter million dollars to former UK pilots to better understand how to counter western military aviation. In the UK, there have been long-running concerns over China’s use of technology to shape and influence global affairs. Of course, these challenges are not limited to the US. Russian and Chinese interests have both been affected by sanctions and the latest target is China’s advanced supercomputing industry. It sets the stage for what is likely to be an all-out global struggle for the west to protect its intellectual property, and indeed the rubber-meets-road security of the development and production operations of our technology providers.Īlready the US has started leveraging the 1950’s era FDPR trade law to protect advanced technologies developed in the US from being sold to certain countries. The case puts the ICT supply chain front and center.

Oh, and in helping the DPRK and Iran spy on their citizens, too. Eyes were glued to the TV as people watched the DOJ charge Huawei (and US subsidiaries) in a racketeering and conspiracy case centered around the theft of trade secrets via fraud and deception in order to “misappropriate sophisticated technology from US companies”.

Whether it’s the Executive Office, the average consumer, or the threat actors, all eyes are on the security of the technology supply chain.

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