US CYBERSECURITY – OLD PRACTICES, NEW VISIONS

US cybersecurity policies have been inadequate for decades and need to be updated to counter the heightened digital and physical risks the nation faces from our adversaries today. The US cybersecurity effort over the past thirty years largely comes down to a series of modest, disjointed, incremental tactics. On the other hand, one significant rival, […]

From Pulitzer Prize winning author Byron Acohido on Last Watchdog.

The review (pasted below) is also available at AUTHOR Q&A: China’s spy balloons reflect a cyber warfare strategy America must counter https://www.lastwatchdog.com/ By Byron V. Acohido The attack surface of company networks is as expansive and porous as ever. Related: Preparing for ‘quantum’ hacks That being so, a new book, Fixing American Cybersecurity, could be a long […]

THE (ONLY) PATH FOR THE US TO WIN THE DIGITAL WAR WITH CHINA

In a series of posts over the past couple weeks (LINKS), we have documented how China has been successfully carrying out a concerted and multi-faceted digital program designed to re-make the post-WWII world order and redirect it toward China. The Chinese campaign is well conceived, integrated, generously supported, and largely covert, which is consistent with […]

CAN THE US MATCH CHINA’S MILITARY-CIVIL FUSION MODEL? WILL IT?

In recent posts, we have described how over the last 30 years China has smartly leveraged the vulnerabilities of the digital age to steal Western technology and, in so doing, leap-frog generations of R&D to become a world economic power. Not satisfied with their renaissance as an economic power, China leveraged massive government financial support […]

Huawei is Just the Tip of the Spear in Digital Aggression

In our last post we documented how Huawei technology, thanks to massive cross-subsidization from the Chinese government, was succeeding in deploying its telecommunications network around the world.  That is a story that is fairly well known in Washington policy circles.  However, Huawei is by no means the only technology threat China poses though its comprehensive […]