Sizzling Cyber Standoff: US Squeezes China Tech, Booz Allen Scores Big, Congress Fumbles Key Law

This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.

Here’s Ting coming at you live from the cyber trenches with your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates! If the cold war had code, it’d look like this week. Let’s jack straight into what’s got U.S. cyber defenders both strutting and sweating.

On the regulatory battlefield, President Biden’s Executive Order 14105, finalized in January, is still shaking things up. This order slammed the gates shut on U.S. investments flowing into Chinese companies deep in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. Treasury kicked it up a notch, now roping in things like debt finance and joint ventures with Chinese entities. Plus, the Department of Commerce and Treasury just dumped another fifty Chinese companies — including the infamous Integrity Technology Group — onto the entity list, basically calling them out for helping Beijing cyberattack American infrastructure. Talk about name and shame at government scale.

Everywhere you look, demand for U.S. cyber talent is booming. Booz Allen Hamilton just inked a $421 million deal with Homeland Security, plugging its expertise into CISA’s diagnostics and mitigation mission. The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act (mouthful, but PADFAA for the acronym fans) turned the screws on data brokers, making it way harder for sensitive info to sneak over to China. Financial firms are scrambling too: the SEC’s Cyber Disclosure Rule has everyone rushing to patch vulnerabilities and beef up software hygiene. All driven by the government and, let’s be honest, a healthy dose of PR nightmares about supply chain sabotage.

Chinese tech is feeling the squeeze. With semiconductors and AI start-ups struggling to source key U.S. components, there’s been a big old brain freeze in innovation. The LiDAR scene? Beijing is pushing hard, but the U.S. is clamping down on importing Chinese LiDAR tech — after all, would you want your self-driving cars or traffic cameras pinging data to the PLA? I didn’t think so.

Not all is kumbaya stateside though. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 is wheezing toward expiration. If Congress can’t pull off a reauthorization, sharing cyber threat intel might drag back to the Stone Age — making everyone’s risk dashboards light up like Times Square. Industry leaders like Booz Allen and CISA’s own director are practically begging lawmakers to not let this crucial law expire.

On the threat front, the FBI flashed an alert after spotting China-aligned group TA415 pulling sneaky heists on policy experts via VS Code remote tunnels. And don’t even try to sleep on SEO poisoning — a classic, but now hard-targeting Chinese-speaking professionals with malware traps disguised as software updates. The U.S. responded with advisories for both government and the private sector, pivoting hard to zero-trust, enhanced supply chain verification, and beefed-up disclosure requirements.

How effective is all this? Experts agree — “whole-of-government” beats piecemeal, and recent sanctions show the U.S. can still outmaneuver state-backed cyber gangs, at least for now. But gaps remain: the expiration of CISA 2015 threatens seamless info sharing, supply chains can be tough to sanitize fully, and enforcement delays on issues like TikTok show that even the biggest stick sometimes gets tangled in red tape.

Listeners, this cyber tug-of-war isn’t slowing down. If you’re in security, double-check your vendor list, patch now, and stay glued for more advisories. Thanks for tuning in! Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss your weekly injection of cyber clarity and China channel politics.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
His tin coming at you live from the cyber trenches
with your tech shield US versus China updates. If the
Cold War had code, it looked like this week. Let's
jack straight into what's got US cyber defenders both strutting
and sweating on the regulatory battlefield. President Biden's Executive Order

(00:20):
fourteen thousand, one hundred five, finalized in January, is still
shaking things up. This order slammed the gate shut on
US investments flowing into Chinese companies deep in semiconductors, artificial intelligence,
and quantum computing. Treasury kicked it up a notch, now
roping in things like get Finance and joint ventures with

(00:42):
Chinese entities. Plus, the Department of Commerce and Treasury just
dumped another fifty Chinese companies, including the infamous Integrity Technology Group,
onto the Entity List, basically calling them out for helping
Beijing's cyber attack American infrastructure. Talk about name and shame
at government scale. Everywhere you look. Demand for US cyber

(01:03):
talent is booming booze. Alan Hamilton just inked a four
hundred and twenty one million dollars deal with Homeland Security,
plugging its expertise into CESARS Diagnostics and Mitigation Mission. The
protecting Americans data from foreign adversaries act mouthful, but padfir
for the acronym fans turn to screws on data brokers,

(01:23):
making it way harder for sensitive info to sneak over
to China. Financial firms are scrambling too. The SEC's cyber
disclosure rule has everyone rushing to patch vulnerabilities and beef
up software hygiene, all driven by the government, and let's
be honest, a healthy dose of pr nightnurs about supply
chain sabotage. Chinese tech is feeling the squeeze, with semiconductors

(01:45):
and AI startups struggling to source key US components. There's
been a big old brain freeze in innovation the lidar scene.
Beijing is pushing hard, but the US is climping down
on importing Chinese lidar tech. After would you want your
self driving cars or traffic cameras pinging data to the PLA?
I didn't think so. Not all is kumbaya Stateside, though,

(02:09):
the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of twenty fifteen is wheezing
toward expiration. If Congress count pull off a reauthorization sharing
cyber threat intel might drag back to the Stone age,
making everyone's wrist dashboards light up like Times Square. Industry
leaders like Booz Allen and Ceissa's own director are practically
begging lawmakers to not let this crucial law expire. On

(02:33):
the threat front, the FBI flashed an alert after spotting
China aligned Group TA four one five pulling sneaky heists
on policy experts via vs code, remote tunnels, and don't
even try to sleep on SEO poisoning a classic but
now hard, targeting Chinese speaking professionals with malware traps disguised

(02:55):
as software outdates. The US responded with advisories for both
government and private sector, pivoting hard to zero trust, enhanced
supply chain verification, and beefed up disclosure requirements. How effective
is all this, experts agree whole of government beats piecemeal,
and recent sanctions show the US can still out maneuver

(03:17):
state backed cyber gangs at least for now, but gaps remain.
The Expiration of CISSA twenty fifteen threatens seamless info sharing,
supply chains can be tough to sanitize fully, and enforcement
delays on issues like tik tok show that even the
biggest stick sometimes gets tangled in red tape listeners. This

(03:39):
cyber tug of war isn't slowing down. If you're in security,
double check your vendor list, patch now and stay glued
for more advisories. Thanks for tuning in. Be sure to
subscribe so you don't miss your weekly injection of cyber
clarity and China Channel politics. This has been a quiet
please production. For more check out Quiet please dot ai