M6D2: Cyberespionage

37284M6D2: Cyberespionage

Cyberespionage presents both security and economic challenges to the United States and other countries. Stealing industrial secrets or negotiating strategies allows the one side to use the other side’s information to its own advantage. While spying for strategic insights is accepted in the rules of the game between nation states, the theft of intellectual property for commercial advantage is not. The increasing reliance on digital systems for the development and storage of intellectual property makes the cyberespionage market quite lucrative. How should nation states respond when their economies are threatened by commercial espionage? What countermeasures might be effective

Question

After completing the assigned readings for the module, please respond to the following question in your initial post:

As indicated by the Director of the FBI and discussed in the Mandiant report (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. on Advanced Persistent Threat 1 (APT1), there appears to be a concerted effort by foreign actors to steal the intellectual property of U.S. companies. Assume you are a Congressman/Congresswoman addressing your constituents in a town hall meeting. You are asked the following question: “What is the risk to national security of foreign countries stealing our business secrets and what should we do about it?”

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