More countries scrutinize foreign efforts to acquire their companies
China has its own set of restrictions on foreign companies and a blacklist. It too wants to reduce its vulnerabilities. Tatyana Bolton, with public policy research group the R Street Institute, said, “There’s a global power shift. China’s rising. The United States arguably is falling. And so this brings about a lot of different concerns for both nations as they change and the power dynamics of the global order.”
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The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers want Biden to fund technology they say could secure American telecommunications companies from spies Tonya Riley
with Aaron Schaffer
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging President Biden to include $3 billion in funding for technology it says would reduce American reliance on Chinese telecommunications equipment that could provide a back door for spying. The money would go to funds established by Congress last year to encourage more American companies to switch over to Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) technology. The technology is essentially the software version of the hardware components needed to connect phones within 5G networks.
Two men enter the booth of Lockheed Martin, the biggest defense company in the world, during the Singapore Airshow February 9, 2020 in Singapore. The Pentagon launched the Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure pilot this week, which will allow researchers to probe a pre-approved list of DoD contractor information systems, networks and applications. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
The Department of Defense is putting the systems and networks of defense contractors to the test in a new pilot vulnerability disclosure program, the latest indicator of the government’s desire to expand upon its previous ventures crowdsourcing cybersecurity.
The Defense Industrial Base Vulnerability Disclosure pilot will last 12 months and allow researchers to probe a pre-approved list of DoD contractor information systems, networks and applications. The Pentagon said that any vulnerabilities submitted through the program will be used for defensive purposes, not to develop new off
On the heels of President Biden introducing his American Rescue Plan (pictured here), the American Jobs Plan is a national infrastructure initiative that will have a palpable impact on cybersecurity. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
President Biden on Wednesday announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, offering a broad range of spending targets â including fixing roads and bridges, planting a nationwide electric vehicle charging network, greening the power grid, and rebuilding schools. Cybersecurity was not specifically mentioned as part of the infrastructure plan, but that won’t prevent the plan from having profound impacts on cybersecurity.
Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” comes as concerns are raised about an “overworked, understaffed” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the center of the federal government response system. With the majority of critical infrastructure in private hands and espionage and criminal threats only r
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