The willingness of authoritarian governments to leverage native tech companies to achieve their national goals has forced U.S. officials to adapt in how they view risk from those companies, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official. “Our focus is not on the country of origin, or the company, but it’s about what is the rule of law under which that product is potentially subject to,” Chris Krebs, head of DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Thursday at the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum presented by Forcepoint and produced by CyberScoop and FedScoop. The problem lies with foreign tech companies that are subject to government demands without the visibility or appeal process that exists in the United States, he said. “It’s the rise of authoritarian states and how they’re operationalizing their tech sectors,” Krebs said, summing up how U.S. officials view products made by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and Russian […]
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