Massive Little Known Chinese Cyber Threat To U.S. Gov’t Security Gets New Spotlight
Say Bye Bye to Bad Communist Chinese Routers...
National security threat in your Internet router?
Countering Chinese Digital Espionage in Routers
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Rebecca Grant, is Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a national security analyst based in Washington, DC specializing in defense and aerospace research and national security consulting.
Congress is finally taking action against an extremely dangerous cyber threat and national security expert Dr. Rebecca Grant is available to discuss why this is important.
Chinese company TP-Link’s cheap and easily hackable routers (you may have one in your home or office) are reportedly in use by many government agencies, defense contractors, and other places where we don't want Chinese prying eyes.
In an increasingly rare case of bipartisan agreement, Monday afternoon the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security Act, or ROUTERS Act, designed to protect the country from cheap network routers, a Chinese cyber weapon. This could be the first step in ridding the U.S. Government of this hackable back door into extremely sensitive data.
The Lexington Institute’s Dr. Rebecca Grant says the U.S. government getting its act together on this issue is long overdue. She is one of Washington, DC’s top national security analysts, specializing in defense and aerospace research and national security consulting.
Dr. Grant wrote about this HERE:
Talk with Dr. Grant about:
· How serious the threat is to U.S. security, what’s already been discovered, and what she says to those who think worrying about this is much ado about nothing
· What it will take to get those cheap, hackable Chinese routers out of circulation in the U.S. government, and how long it will take
· What involvement other bad actors like Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. have in this cyber threat, and what we can and should do about it
· If sales of TP-Link routers should be halted in the U.S.
BIO: She has researched and published hundreds of articles on national security and spoken at numerous forums. In addition, Dr. Grant has often appeared on television as an expert on national security for Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, and MSNBC and as a series regular on The Smithsonian’s Air Warriors.
Dr. Grant also writes on China, Russia and other technology and national security topics for Fox News Opinion. Her military books include 75 Great Airmen (with Lt. Gen. Chris Miller), The B-2 Goes to War, and Battle-Tested: Aircraft Carriers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dr. Grant graduated from Wellesley College and earned a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, University of London.
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Dr. Rebecca Grant, is Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a national security analyst based in Washington, DC specializing in defense and aerospace research and national security consulting.