Information Security For China And USA Already Vital Necessity

It seems that soon a lot of electronic and printed publications will have a new column in which the terms information security or even war will be key. Ten to fifteen years ago, it was difficult to associate state espionage with the Internet due to low integration of computers into the industry of many countries, but now more and more documents appear, such as this one - Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare. Preliminary Assessment of the National Doctrine and Organization (Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Preliminary Assessment of the National Doctrine and Organization).

It is noteworthy that this document contains almost background information about one UN unit - UNIDIR (the UN Institute for Disarmament Research), but the fact that the above terms have already become "workers". For example, another "State Commission for Monitoring Economic Issues and Security Issues in Relations between the United States and China" developed and submitted (as early as last year!) A report that qualifies the opportunities and prospects of the People's Republic of China in cyberspace. And, given that the said commission has powers from the US Congress and makes recommendations to the defense department of the United States, the level of seriousness of intentions can not be questioned and information security has priority economic.

There is even less information coming from China, but this does not mean that information security is foreign to the PRC. On the contrary, not so long ago the PRC forced many world brands to transfer production to themselves (it's enough to ask where the latest versions of the iPad are going, let alone the accessories). This means that the West itself brought to China the latest technology, which can be used for a variety of purposes. This is also mentioned in the report, especially with regard to the technical equipment of the armed forces of the United States. Do not forget about the academic and financial resources of the People's Republic of China, which work all over the world and are represented in all sectors of the world economy on all the world's inhabited continents.

It's no secret that many software and technology giants of the PRC are developing technologies and devices so-called. "Dual-purpose", carrying out state orders. As in the US, in China, economic and information security is overseen by a number of special services, but the main thing behind this is that the confrontation is transferred to a new environment where there are no familiar boundaries and the rules of the game are not yet defined. It is this factor that is decisive at the present time, which means that there is an unspoken rule "whoever did, he ate". In practice, however, both sides will be satisfied with this state of affairs until the first problem, which can not be withheld; Only after this it is expected that the parties will be able to admit to such a war and sit down at the negotiating table.

The results of this hidden race can be seen, for example, in the fact that many IT companies in the United States have already tacitly stopped hiring ethnic Chinese and South Asian people from work; Even outsourcing gradually began to move away from traditional Asian markets and look towards the countries of the former USSR, Latin America (Brazil in particular) and Eastern Europe. No one currently wants to recognize the existence of such discrimination, but this division on the basis of nationality in the current conditions takes on a new form.