From: Federal News Radio
By Jason Miller
The nervousness over the security of the technology agencies are buying may have hit the necessary crescendo needed to change behaviors. The U.S. China Commission issued its final report on supply chain risks to federal IT last Thursday and the findings show the threat from China and other countries is not only real, but agencies already are in trouble.
“China did not emerge as a key node on the global [information and communications technology] ICT supply chain by chance. The Chinese government considers the ICT sector a ‘strategic sector’ in which it has invested significant state capital and influence on behalf of state-owned ICT enterprises,” the report states. “New policies requiring companies to surrender source code, store data on servers based in China, invest in Chinese companies, and allow the Chinese government to conduct security audits on their products open federal ICT providers — and the federal ICT networks they supply — to Chinese cyberespionage efforts and intellectual property theft. China also continues to target U.S. government contractors and other private sector entities as part of its efforts to gain economic advantage and pursue other state goals.”
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