Cybersecurity
has been a major issue in the United States recently. Multiple attacks have taken place, which affected big
companies such as the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Blue Cross Blue Shield. One of the main offenders of cyber
hacks lately has been China. China
was behind the cyber hacking of the United States federal government, which
affected many. This past week the
president of China, Xi Jinping visited the United States and had an important
meeting with President Obama regarding China’s recent bad decisions.
The
good news is that both President Obama and President Xi came to a resolution
concerning this issue. Both the US
and China have agreed that neither will participate in any type of cyber
security searches or breaches anymore.
They will not be able to illegally steal information or any other state
secrets. The two Presidents are
saying they will not support any activity of this sort. Hopefully, President Xi
will stick to his word because it seems that he has been lying in the past
saying that China is not behind these recent attacks though there is clear
evidence stating otherwise.
The United States and China have also
said that they will try to create rules and regulations for how each nation
should go about their business in “cyberspace.” It is good to see that President Obama and Congress are being
to put some of the focus on this cybersecurity issue. It has already affected the lives of so many and it must
come to an end. It is so important
that Congress focuses on an issue that may not be as clearly prominent as
something like the Iran Deal. Many
Congress members today have spoken up about their concerns on this issue and
have said that they are not sure China will stick to their word. Obama has made it clear that he is very
serious about putting sanctions into place if China tries anything suspicious
at all. China is known for trying to pull a fast one over on other
nations to get ahead of the crowd.
This year China’s stock market has seen some tough times and it wouldn’t
surprise many people if they used their cyber hacking abilities to get their
act together.
Now
that cyber security has reached a high enough level on Congress’ to do list,
hopefully we will see improvement in this issue. Congress members will be pleasing many of their constituents
if they take place in the fight against these cybersecurity issues. Congress has put this issue to the side
for so long because it was not something that captured all of the headlines and
it is about time that they focus on issues like this. There will be many follow ups in the next few days and weeks
on how the US and China are continuing to work on this issue.
1 comment:
Do you have any predictions as to which Congress members are taking the most initiative in regards to cyber security? Do you think Congress will be proactive with writing up legislation on this matter now that this has taken place or do you think it'll take them time to write something up?
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