Educational Technology

June 15, 2012

Questionable loyalties: the cybersecurity implications of buying system software from foreign companies

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:39 am

By David Gewirtz, ZD Net

Do you trust commercial programs made in foreign nations, particularly those nations with authoritarian regimes or a history of cyberattack? At the very same time we are concerned about cyber-attacks, phishing attacks, botnet invasions, and other penetrations of our personal, industrial, and national defense systems and networks, we’re turning over the protection of those systems to foreign companies with possibly questionable loyalties. This is becoming a national security issue. We may need to establish defensive strategies that include blocking (or at least shining a light on) security products we rely on, produced by foreign agents or agencies.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/questionable-loyalties-the-cybersecurity-implications-of-buying-system-software-from-foreign-companies/11276?tag=nl.e539

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