This week, the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), held a hearing to examine global cybersecurity threats to the homeland, featuring testimony from the private sector. Witness testimony was provided by Adam Meyers, senior vice president of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike; retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Brandon Wales, vice president of cybersecurity strategy at SentinelOne; and Kemba Walden, president at Paladin Global Institute.
In the Committee’s first hearing of the 119th Congress, retired Rear Admiral Montgomery revealed the startling extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing access to our networks, as well as the sinister reason behind China’s pre-positioning efforts in our critical infrastructure. Meyers further outlined how threat actors, such as China, Russia, and North Korea, find and exploit known or zero-day vulnerabilities in American technology. As America’s adversaries increasingly use cyberspace as a battlefield, every witness called for enhanced cyber readiness across the government and private networks. Witnesses agreed the danger lies in failing to prioritize cybersecurity efforts––whether defensive or offensive.
No comments:
Post a Comment