Apparently in reaction to the article that Mike McLaughlin and I wrote for the National Interest, seen here, The Hill is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about precisely what we wrote about–the Chinese government is requiring foreign companies that operate in China to make their systems completely open to government penetration. This opens up a vector for the Chinese government to leapfrog from those systems into many U.S.-based computer systems.
This penetration is completely invisible because it appears to be legitimate corporate traffic. But it could be an even deeper challenge than what the Russians have done with Solar Winds. America needs to get serious about cybersecurity. So far it hasn’t–and one of the biggest reasons is that the business sector does not trust working with U.S. government agencies to create an effective defense. We have to overcome that gap if ever we are to resist state-supported penetrations from the Russians and Chinese.
