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Biden’s National Security Strategy Reinforces Tech Decoupling and Increased Regulatory Focus

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November 18, 2022

Originally published in The Hill

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The recently released National Security Strategy sets forth the Biden administration’s approach to a changing world at an inflection point providing a roadmap for the administration and for Congress. The administration’s national security priorities largely echo those of past administrations, but they diverge with their focus on a “modern industrial and innovation strategy” that promises deep use of industrial and economic tools to create a bulwark against autocracies like Russia and China. The resulting message is clear: The administration’s national security goals are inherently tied to, and will necessarily impact, a broad swath of American companies.

Five areas of the strategy stand-out for their potential impact on companies.

First, increased investment scrutiny will ensure the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), with its expansive authority to review foreign investments, continues to be a prominent national security tool. The strategy also contemplates new outbound investment restrictions, which have been gaining congressional momentum as well. Should “reverse-CFIUS” come into effect, companies will need to transform their outbound investment strategies, planning for increased investment timelines, heightened scrutiny for investments in certain sectors and in certain countries, and potentially restrictions on certain outbound investments deemed to pose national security risk. Further, increased export controls will require companies to reinforce compliance programs and reevaluate offshoring operations. As the Commerce Department’s recent semiconductor restrictions demonstrate, new regulations can quickly reverberate across an industry, in some cases having a material impact.

Second, foreign policy and domestic policy lines blur with the focus on making strategic public investments in strategic sectors and supply chains, especially critical and emerging technologies. New laws, including the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, illustrate the administration’s commitment — and congressional support —…

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Growth Opportunities for Blockchain in Cyberwarfare and National Security 2022: Blockchain to Fortify Military Strategy – ResearchAndMarkets.com

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DUBLIN–()–The “Growth Opportunities for Blockchain in Cyberwarfare and National Security” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The increasing frequency of attacks on national assets and the sophistication of cyberthreats threaten a nation’s ability to defend itself from cyberwarfare strategies. The expanding application of deepfake AI against dominant political figures, social media hijacks of persons of national interest, unauthorized defense network penetration, and ransom demands that threaten complete network outages have forced government administrators to expand their defense horizon.

Despite the ever-increasing threat landscape and their incredibly high-risk profile, government organizations remain far behind where they should be in terms of cybermaturity and digital resilience strategies, necessitating a rapid push to fortify cyber-defenses and manage their cyber-risk profiles.

Cyberattacks on important assets will increase, and blockchain will be at the core of successfully averting them. Blockchain adoption will enable administrators to gain better visibility of procedures at various junctions of the governmental value chain. The technology will be extremely beneficial for segments such as managing digital identities, regulating international financial settlements, and securing defense procurements and weapon systems. Moreover, future battlefields will use computer-controlled and IoT-based communication platforms. Blockchain will be a vital component in encrypting and safeguarding battlefield strategies.

Blockchain will play a pivotal role in helping administrators gain better visibility and develop strong data management guidelines. These guidelines will help administrators transition toward a digital economy, counter various administrative challenges with respect to urbanization (smart city infrastructure), and regulate the supply chain for defense procurements.

Extensive use of IoT-driven communication across various services generates a huge amount of data, which are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Smart city solutions, such as smart grids, digital healthcare, and intelligent traffic solutions, deploy many IoT…

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President calls for national strategy to meet conventional, cyber warfare challenges

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President calls for national strategy to meet conventional, cyber warfare challenges

President Dr Arif Alvi has called for outlining a national strategy securing the domains of both traditional and non-traditional security including cyber warfare. 

Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day conference on ‘Challenges and Opportunities Evolving Global Order’ in Islamabad on Wednesday, the President said the renewed world order demands sustainable conditions ensuring internal and external opportunities for all citizens for a prosperous future.

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Pradeo acquires Yagaan and strengthens its cybersecurity services unification strategy

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By ensuring mobile device and application security from their design to their execution, Pradeo covers the entire spectrum of the mobile security chain.

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[Paris] Pradeo in mobile fleet and application security enters into exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of Yagaan, an application security software company based in France. Thus, the mobile security leader is strengthening his path towards unifying cybersecurity services by providing comprehensive expertise and solutions in the fast-growing mobile security market.

In 2021, the global mobile security market was valued at $3.96 billion1 and the global application security market was valued at $6.95 billion2, with respective projections of +20.75% and +18.3% CAGR from 2021 to 2028.

Recognized as one of the leaders in its field by the largest international analyst firms and awarded multiple times for the ultra-relevance of its offer, Pradeo wanted to expand its technology with a strategic component dedicated to the testing of applications’ source code.

Pradeo’s objective is to become the sole contact for CISOs, application developers, auditors, device manufacturers and other cybersecurity stakeholders for all issues related to the protection of mobile applications and associated web services, as well as smartphones and tablets.

“With its European roots, Pradeo leverages its sensitivity to data privacy to take a global leadership position. The adoption of Pradeo’s mobile security solutions by Fortune 500 companies is a clear endorsement of its implementation,” said Nicholas J. Baugh, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Thanks to the acquisition of Yagaan, whose team has conceived and developed code mining, a disruptive technology for auditing applications’ source code, Pradeo is expanding its market share and consolidating its global development. Once again, the company proves its technological lead and can now take pride in mastering the entire mobile security value chain, from the design of mobile applications and associated web services (security by design) to the detection and response to threats targeting mobile devices.

Created in 2017, Yagaan…

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