Another planning consideration for backups.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/12/zero_trust_regcast/
Think your backups will protect you against ransomware? They’re top of the target list
Being hit by ransomware is gut wrenching enough, but it’ll be ten times worse if it coincides with the realization that your data protection systems just aren’t up the job anymore.
If you’re lucky, you’ll find yourself having to balance the cost of a ransom against the cost of downtime as you work your way from the painstaking process of restoring your data from traditional backups, simultaneously watching the clock while hoping that they are not too out of date.
At worst, you could find that it’s not just your production systems that were breached, but that the attackers have also encrypted your backups into the bargain too. After all, they’ve taken the time to get to know your organisation intimately so they could stage the attack in the first place, why wouldn’t they know your data protection strategy inside out too?
Another example of politics not matching reality? What are they afraid of?
Xi Jinping’s assault on tech will change China’s trajectory
It is likely to prove self-defeating
Of all china’s achievements in the past two decades, one of the most impressive is the rise of its technology industry. Alibaba hosts twice as much e-commerce activity as Amazon does. Tencent runs the world’s most popular super-app, with 1.2bn users. China’s tech revolution has also helped transform its long-run economic prospects at home, by allowing it to leap beyond manufacturing into new fields such as digital health care and artificial intelligence (ai). As well as propelling China’s prosperity, a dazzling tech industry could also be the foundation for a challenge to American supremacy.
That is why President Xi Jinping’s assault on his country’s $4trn tech industry is so startling. There have been over 50 regulatory actions against scores of firms for a dizzying array of alleged offences, from antitrust abuses to data violations. The threat of government bans and fines has weighed on share prices, costing investors around $1trn.
Perhaps the government is playing a shell game by shifting surveillance duties from one agency to another? I doubt it is spontaneous.
EPIC Sues Postal Service to Halt Use of Facial Recognition, Social Media Monitoring
From EPIC.org:
EPIC has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service to block the use of facial recognition and social media monitoring tools under the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP). EPIC’s case challenges the Postal Service’s failure to conduct and publish the Privacy Impact Assessment mandated by the E-Government Act before procuring and using advanced surveillance systems under iCOP. EPIC is seeking a court order to block iCOP from using these tools at least until the Postal Service has conducted the required assessment. EPIC brought suit after the Postal Service failed to locate a PIA in response to EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act request. Under iCOP, law enforcement officials the U.S. Postal Inspection Service monitored protests in the summer of 2020 and spring of 2021 and used Clearview AI’s controversial facial recognition product to identify individuals. The iCOP’s surveillance of protests and tracking of “inflammatory” content goes far beyond the program’s mandate to investigate fraud and other crimes perpetuated through the mail or USPS’s website. EPIC has previously used the E-Government Act to block the deployment of a media surveillance platform by the Department of Homeland Security and to halt the collection of voter data by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
If you build them, they will buy? Nothing too far outside the box – why?
Army Futures Command outlines next five years of AI needs
Army Futures Command has outlined 11 broad areas of artificial intelligence research it’s interested in over the next five years, with an emphasis on data analysis, autonomous systems, security and decision-making assistance.
… The announcement, released by the command’s Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, said the service is “particularly” interested in AI research of autonomous ground and air platforms, “which must operate in open, urban and cluttered environments.” The document specifically asks for research into technologies that allow for robots or autonomous systems to move in urban, contested environments, as well as technologies that reduce the electromagnetic profile of the systems. It also wants to know more about AI that can sense obscure targets and understand terrain obstacles.
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