Special Edition: Chris Krebs, Alex Stamos and Patrick Gray
Apr 24, 2024
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Former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos and founding CISA director Chris Krebs discuss global supply chain security challenges, China and Russia's tech control ambitions, and the implications for Western security. The conversation delves into the evolving landscape of technology, military operations, and cybersecurity threats, highlighting the strategic competition between China and the US for technological dominance.
China and Russia are removing American tech from supply chains, rebuilding with controlled components.
US faces supply chain challenges, having American components but lacking visibility adversaries have.
Deep dives
China and Russia impacting supply chains
China and Russia are actively removing American tech from their supply chains and rebuilding them with components they control. The US faces different challenges with its supply chain, having mostly American components but lacking visibility and control that adversaries have.
Concerns about cloud security and data access
The shift to cloud services is being closely monitored by intelligence agencies as countries like China and Russia aim to target cloud data's accessibility and vulnerability points, seeing it as a critical target due to the data and access it provides.
Global tech sovereignty challenges
The concern over relying on foreign technology for critical capabilities is a global issue affecting sovereignty. Countries like China and Russia distrust Western tech, while the US faces supply chain challenges and lack of control over certain companies.
Impact of potential cyber conflicts on global stability
There's a growing recognition of how cyber conflicts could impact global stability. Issues like vulnerabilities in cloud providers and reliance on foreign technology raise concerns about national security and resilience in the face of potential conflicts.
In this special edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos and founding CISA director Chris Krebs about sovereignty and technology.
China and Russia are doing their level best to yeet American tech from their supply chains – hardware, software and cloud services. They’ll be rebuilding these supply chains – for government systems, at least – from components that they have complete visibility into, and control over.
Meanwhile, America’s government faces different supply chain challenges. It has a supply chain that won’t be weaponised against it by its adversaries, but it lacks the same sort of visibility and control that its adversaries will eventually achieve over their supply chains. So where does this leave the west? Where does it leave China and Russia?
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