Intelligence Expert: 8 Steps for Academic Leaders to Meet Global Cybersecurity Threats

Amid increasing alarm about the breadth and intensity of Chinese espionage against the democratic world, in July 2022, the heads of MI5 and FBI warned of the growing threat posed by China stating, “The Chinese government poses an even more serious threat to Western businesses” and “is set on stealing your technology” with a hacking program “bigger than that of every major country combined.” Companies, agencies, departments and universities across the world now face a state-sponsored onslaught actively and passively engaged in economic and national espionage. Economic espionage (IP theft) is not only being actively conducted through direct cyber measures…