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This is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.
My name is Ting, cyber sleuth extraordinaire and your go-to for the latest on the US-China cyber front. Buckle up, because this past week in cyberspace has been a wild ride of innovation, brinksmanship, and some serious digital chess between Washington and Beijing.
First, let’s kick it off with Capitol Hill, where House Republicans, led by Tennessee’s Andy Ogles and Mark E. Green, reintroduced the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act. The name might be longer than a Zoom meeting with bad Wi-Fi, but the gist is sharp: the US government is building an interagency task force—think CISA, the FBI, and all the sector risk management big shots—explicitly to counter and report on Chinese-origin cyber threats to critical US infrastructure. That annual classified report to Congress? I’d love to get my hands on that, but alas, I’m just Ting, not James Bond. The task force will track everything from malicious campaigns to the tactics of state-sponsored actors tied to the CCP, keeping the lights on and the water running, literally.
Now, switch to the Pentagon’s playbook: According to the DIA’s latest threat assessment, the People’s Liberation Army just got a makeover. Xi Jinping’s team pulled the PLA’s Cyberspace Force, Aerospace Force, and a freshly minted Information Support Force directly under the Central Military Commission. Why? To make Chinese cyber ops even more agile, more coordinated, and honestly, harder to stop in a fight. The US response? More intelligence gathering. Washington is zeroing in on China’s web of proxies—private actors, Ministry of State Security pop-up teams, and those ever-mysterious PLA units. The goal is to map out these networks, find their weak spots, and start dropping some carefully placed digital wrenches into the gears.
And let’s not forget the private sector! US companies are ramping up zero-trust architectures, working hand-in-hand with government task forces, and tightening export controls. You better believe Silicon Valley is patching up defenses and watching for PLA-linked cyber sleight-of-hand in the cloud, especially as Beijing’s hackers get creative with Western AI models and semiconductor tech.
But it’s not all Washington vs. Beijing. Internationally, the US is doubling down on cooperation with global internet infrastructure players—cloud providers, cable operators, and data center wizards—to spot and thwart PLA cyber activities before things boil over. The message is clear: cyberspace is global, and allies matter.
Emerging on the tech front: better AI-driven threat detection, real-time anomaly analysis, and smarter financial tracking to cut off China’s access to Western tools needed for those headline-grabbing malware campaigns. Of course, the cat-and-mouse game continues; every time we close an export loophole, Beijing tries to find or build another.
So there you have it. From Congress to California, and all the way to the Central Military Commission in Beijing, the cyber pulse is racing. Stay alert, stay patched, and remember—nobody rides the firewall like Ting.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
My name is Ting, cyber sleuth extraordinaire and your go-to for the latest on the US-China cyber front. Buckle up, because this past week in cyberspace has been a wild ride of innovation, brinksmanship, and some serious digital chess between Washington and Beijing.
First, let’s kick it off with Capitol Hill, where House Republicans, led by Tennessee’s Andy Ogles and Mark E. Green, reintroduced the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act. The name might be longer than a Zoom meeting with bad Wi-Fi, but the gist is sharp: the US government is building an interagency task force—think CISA, the FBI, and all the sector risk management big shots—explicitly to counter and report on Chinese-origin cyber threats to critical US infrastructure. That annual classified report to Congress? I’d love to get my hands on that, but alas, I’m just Ting, not James Bond. The task force will track everything from malicious campaigns to the tactics of state-sponsored actors tied to the CCP, keeping the lights on and the water running, literally.
Now, switch to the Pentagon’s playbook: According to the DIA’s latest threat assessment, the People’s Liberation Army just got a makeover. Xi Jinping’s team pulled the PLA’s Cyberspace Force, Aerospace Force, and a freshly minted Information Support Force directly under the Central Military Commission. Why? To make Chinese cyber ops even more agile, more coordinated, and honestly, harder to stop in a fight. The US response? More intelligence gathering. Washington is zeroing in on China’s web of proxies—private actors, Ministry of State Security pop-up teams, and those ever-mysterious PLA units. The goal is to map out these networks, find their weak spots, and start dropping some carefully placed digital wrenches into the gears.
And let’s not forget the private sector! US companies are ramping up zero-trust architectures, working hand-in-hand with government task forces, and tightening export controls. You better believe Silicon Valley is patching up defenses and watching for PLA-linked cyber sleight-of-hand in the cloud, especially as Beijing’s hackers get creative with Western AI models and semiconductor tech.
But it’s not all Washington vs. Beijing. Internationally, the US is doubling down on cooperation with global internet infrastructure players—cloud providers, cable operators, and data center wizards—to spot and thwart PLA cyber activities before things boil over. The message is clear: cyberspace is global, and allies matter.
Emerging on the tech front: better AI-driven threat detection, real-time anomaly analysis, and smarter financial tracking to cut off China’s access to Western tools needed for those headline-grabbing malware campaigns. Of course, the cat-and-mouse game continues; every time we close an export loophole, Beijing tries to find or build another.
So there you have it. From Congress to California, and all the way to the Central Military Commission in Beijing, the cyber pulse is racing. Stay alert, stay patched, and remember—nobody rides the firewall like Ting.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
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By Quiet. PleaseThis is your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates podcast.
My name is Ting, cyber sleuth extraordinaire and your go-to for the latest on the US-China cyber front. Buckle up, because this past week in cyberspace has been a wild ride of innovation, brinksmanship, and some serious digital chess between Washington and Beijing.
First, let’s kick it off with Capitol Hill, where House Republicans, led by Tennessee’s Andy Ogles and Mark E. Green, reintroduced the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act. The name might be longer than a Zoom meeting with bad Wi-Fi, but the gist is sharp: the US government is building an interagency task force—think CISA, the FBI, and all the sector risk management big shots—explicitly to counter and report on Chinese-origin cyber threats to critical US infrastructure. That annual classified report to Congress? I’d love to get my hands on that, but alas, I’m just Ting, not James Bond. The task force will track everything from malicious campaigns to the tactics of state-sponsored actors tied to the CCP, keeping the lights on and the water running, literally.
Now, switch to the Pentagon’s playbook: According to the DIA’s latest threat assessment, the People’s Liberation Army just got a makeover. Xi Jinping’s team pulled the PLA’s Cyberspace Force, Aerospace Force, and a freshly minted Information Support Force directly under the Central Military Commission. Why? To make Chinese cyber ops even more agile, more coordinated, and honestly, harder to stop in a fight. The US response? More intelligence gathering. Washington is zeroing in on China’s web of proxies—private actors, Ministry of State Security pop-up teams, and those ever-mysterious PLA units. The goal is to map out these networks, find their weak spots, and start dropping some carefully placed digital wrenches into the gears.
And let’s not forget the private sector! US companies are ramping up zero-trust architectures, working hand-in-hand with government task forces, and tightening export controls. You better believe Silicon Valley is patching up defenses and watching for PLA-linked cyber sleight-of-hand in the cloud, especially as Beijing’s hackers get creative with Western AI models and semiconductor tech.
But it’s not all Washington vs. Beijing. Internationally, the US is doubling down on cooperation with global internet infrastructure players—cloud providers, cable operators, and data center wizards—to spot and thwart PLA cyber activities before things boil over. The message is clear: cyberspace is global, and allies matter.
Emerging on the tech front: better AI-driven threat detection, real-time anomaly analysis, and smarter financial tracking to cut off China’s access to Western tools needed for those headline-grabbing malware campaigns. Of course, the cat-and-mouse game continues; every time we close an export loophole, Beijing tries to find or build another.
So there you have it. From Congress to California, and all the way to the Central Military Commission in Beijing, the cyber pulse is racing. Stay alert, stay patched, and remember—nobody rides the firewall like Ting.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
My name is Ting, cyber sleuth extraordinaire and your go-to for the latest on the US-China cyber front. Buckle up, because this past week in cyberspace has been a wild ride of innovation, brinksmanship, and some serious digital chess between Washington and Beijing.
First, let’s kick it off with Capitol Hill, where House Republicans, led by Tennessee’s Andy Ogles and Mark E. Green, reintroduced the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act. The name might be longer than a Zoom meeting with bad Wi-Fi, but the gist is sharp: the US government is building an interagency task force—think CISA, the FBI, and all the sector risk management big shots—explicitly to counter and report on Chinese-origin cyber threats to critical US infrastructure. That annual classified report to Congress? I’d love to get my hands on that, but alas, I’m just Ting, not James Bond. The task force will track everything from malicious campaigns to the tactics of state-sponsored actors tied to the CCP, keeping the lights on and the water running, literally.
Now, switch to the Pentagon’s playbook: According to the DIA’s latest threat assessment, the People’s Liberation Army just got a makeover. Xi Jinping’s team pulled the PLA’s Cyberspace Force, Aerospace Force, and a freshly minted Information Support Force directly under the Central Military Commission. Why? To make Chinese cyber ops even more agile, more coordinated, and honestly, harder to stop in a fight. The US response? More intelligence gathering. Washington is zeroing in on China’s web of proxies—private actors, Ministry of State Security pop-up teams, and those ever-mysterious PLA units. The goal is to map out these networks, find their weak spots, and start dropping some carefully placed digital wrenches into the gears.
And let’s not forget the private sector! US companies are ramping up zero-trust architectures, working hand-in-hand with government task forces, and tightening export controls. You better believe Silicon Valley is patching up defenses and watching for PLA-linked cyber sleight-of-hand in the cloud, especially as Beijing’s hackers get creative with Western AI models and semiconductor tech.
But it’s not all Washington vs. Beijing. Internationally, the US is doubling down on cooperation with global internet infrastructure players—cloud providers, cable operators, and data center wizards—to spot and thwart PLA cyber activities before things boil over. The message is clear: cyberspace is global, and allies matter.
Emerging on the tech front: better AI-driven threat detection, real-time anomaly analysis, and smarter financial tracking to cut off China’s access to Western tools needed for those headline-grabbing malware campaigns. Of course, the cat-and-mouse game continues; every time we close an export loophole, Beijing tries to find or build another.
So there you have it. From Congress to California, and all the way to the Central Military Commission in Beijing, the cyber pulse is racing. Stay alert, stay patched, and remember—nobody rides the firewall like Ting.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta