Post by Strider Technologies

During the 1970s, President Nixon and national security advisor Henry Kissinger ushered in a policy of détente with the Soviet Union. "Although Nixon and Kissinger accurately guessed that US industries would be targets for Soviet espionage, the extent to which the Soviets exploited détente would have been beyond their wildest imaginations,” writes Calder Walton, Strider advisor and Director of Research for the Intelligence Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School, in The Cipher Brief. "There is no reason why the PRC would not seek to exploit a détente with the west as the Soviets did before,” continued Walton. "The Chinese state and its intelligence services have never encountered a western business whose intellectual property they did not want." The bulk of emerging technologies and innovation are being developed by the private sector, which make these companies primary targets for systematic theft. Strider equips industry leaders with strategic intelligence to identify and mitigate that risk in a way that wasn't possible before. Read Walton’s full op-ed about economic security in an age of strategic competition at the link in the comments.