US Needs Comprehensive Policy to Combat China on IP Theft
The United States cannot lose sight of Chinese cyber operations that target intellectual property, a panel of experts says.
The United States needs a more systematic approach to engage with China on cybersecurity and intellectual property issues, and to address the ongoing theft of industrial and defensive technologies via cyberattacks, a panel of policy and technology experts stated last week.
Without good options to respond to other nations cyber operations, the US and Western countries are at a disadvantage. While the lion s share of cyberattacks are criminal in nature, the targeting of intellectual property is eroding and in some areas, has already eroded the United States technological lead. The resemblance between China s advanced fighter aircraft and the US F-35 stealth fighter underscores that China is building much of its global power on technology from the US and other countries, said US Senator Angus King J
Cleaning up SolarWinds hack may cost as much as $100 billion [CQ-Roll Call :: BC-US-CYBERATTACKS-COST:CON]
WASHINGTON American businesses and government agencies could be spending upward of $100 billion over many months to contain and fix the damage from the Russian hack against the SolarWinds software used by so many Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government departments.
“Unlike good wine, this case continues to get worse with age,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. “For a lot of folks, the more they dig, the worse the picture looks.”
Not only were at least four government departments targeted by the Kremlin hack Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and Justice but also thousands of top global corporations who were customers of SolarWinds, Cilluffo said. While government agencies appeared to be primary targets, “it doesn’t mean the private sector isn’t affected as well,”
Cleaning up SolarWinds hack may cost as much as $100 billion
WASHINGTON American businesses and government agencies could be spending upward of $100 billion over many months to contain and fix the damage from the Russian hack against the SolarWinds software used by so many Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government departments.
“Unlike good wine, this case continues to get worse with age,” said Frank Cilluffo, director of Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. “For a lot of folks, the more they dig, the worse the picture looks.”
Not only were at least four government departments targeted by the Kremlin hack Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and Justice but also thousands of top global corporations who were customers of SolarWinds, Cilluffo said. While government agencies appeared to be primary targets, “it doesn’t mean the private sector isn’t affected as well,” he said.
Suzanne E. Spaulding, a Senior Advisor for the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies says, “We are fortunate in the field of cybersecurity to have a deep and growing bench of experts who also happen to be women and/or persons of color. We cannot afford to keep them on the sidelines of our efforts to help the public and policymakers understand these issues, any more than we can afford not to have them in our workforce.”
“There is nothing inherent in cybersecurity that should prevent anyone, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, or national origin from helping to secure the essential networks on which we all rely. We are stronger when we work together,” says