There's a lot going in in cyber right now as it relates to books 2 and 3 of my cyber thriller series. Supply chain attacks on the software infrastructure, misinformation campaigns over social media, ransomware gangs halting critical infrastructure operations, and other state-sanctioned subterfuge coning from China, Russia, Iran and other countries and criminal gangs that want to cause disruption and gain world dominance.
Think, for a moment, how interconnected we are with countries that want to harm us. Chinese tech is ubiquitous and even if it's a US based product, their components are made or assembled in China. For example, Cisco routers sends parts development to China. I know: I've been in the fraud department at Cisco and have seen the red pins all over their maps of China. That was fifteen years ago and things are much worse today. The new laptop I just opened up said "assembled in China," and so on.
We are also letting strangers on social media dictate what we think and division has never been worse in our country. The Russian trolls are doing their jobs expertly, posting fake news that people believe is patriotic enough to fight over, and even influencing our election cycles.
Can we rip out our infrastructure and start over? No way, says everyone in the tech industry who laughs me out of the room (as usual, when I ask tough questions, they just laugh at me). But these questions need to be raised and addressed before it's too late to change anything.
It's probably already too late because the cost of replacing all forms of tech developed in countries that want to do us harm, is unfathomable. Where will be in 40 years? That's what I address in my cyber thriller series, Breaking Backbones.
The first book, Breaking Backbones: Information is Power, is available on Amazon and all book outlets. You can buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Backbones-Information-Hacker-Trilogy/dp/1665701080/