DETERRING CHINESE CYBER-ATTACKS: MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

When I was an analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency in the early 1980s we used to say that if grains of sand on a beach were bits of intelligence information Moscow would send a large bulldozer onto the beach and scoop up as much as it could. Beijing, on the other hand, would send a million Chinese and each person would put a handful of sand in their pocket. The Chinese, for all their progress, haven’t changed; that’s how they hack into U.S. networks and steal U.S. military and trade secrets.  (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

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THE LASTING LEGACY OF 9/11

This week is the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Is their lasting legacy greater security for Americans from terrorist attacks because of everything the United States has done in their aftermath? Or, is it the erosion of our privacy and freedom?  (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

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CYBERSECURITY VS. CYBERVAMPIRES: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS

“There are two types of companies left in America; those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don’t know it.”  (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)

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