China Escalating Its Cyber Warfare Against the West Amid Inadequate US Response: Experts
By J.M. Phelps
October 7, 2021 Updated: October 7, 2021
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is escalating its cyber offensive against the West, despite efforts from the United States and its allies to stop it, experts warn.
Beijing has been “quite public with their goals, yet the world keeps getting surprised by them,” Jody Westby, CEO of cyber security firm Global Cyber Risk LLC told The Epoch Times.
Its goal, expressed in official military guidelines, is to “win an informationized war,” Westby said. Under this strategy, the CCP sees cyber and space technologies as crucial for victory in conflicts. That this is a national policy should underscore how important the field of information technology and nefarious cyber activity has become to the regime, she said.
“The cyber threat environment is more dangerous now than it’s ever been, and every person is at risk,” she said. People working in the fields of information technology (IT) and cyber security will continue to struggle to confront the “enormous threat,” according to Westby.
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