CISA is the leading US government agency to protect the country from cybersecurity threats. The acting director designated the threat posed by China.
WASHINGTON – Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) testified to Congress on May 8th about efforts to combat cyberattacks by the Communist Party of China (CCP).
Cybersecurity agencies are supporting companies with mitigation strategies against China’s cyber threats, she said.
“The more difficult it makes them into our critical infrastructure, the better it will be,” Bean said.
Bean said CISA’s core functionality is an “attack surface management program,” and agents will advise private companies on how to detect common types of hacking and issue “software patches” to protect them.
“Attack Search Management is not only one of our most scalable (and) cost-effective tools we have (but) but it is the most effective way to provide an entity to identify vulnerabilities and fix them, and to mitigate that challenge.”
Bean also explained how the agency defends the use of Tiktok, a social media platform owned by China’s Company Integration Act, which is subject to China’s National Security Act, which requires companies to provide personal data they have in Beijing.
“China is the most prolific and dominant threat we have, and they are hacking us for three reasons. They are doing it for spying, they are (it) to steal our intellectual property, and they are in our critical infrastructure,” Bean said.
“They are waiting to disrupt or destroy our critical infrastructure at the point and place they choose.
