A new report published by Booz Allen Hamilton provides detailed insight into global cyber threats posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The China Cyber Threat Report outlines Beijing’s chief motivations for carrying out cyberattacks or espionage, the key tactics it employs, and provides strategies for CISOs to help their organizations to better identify and prepare for PRC cyber campaigns.
Security, sovereignty, development: key PRC cyberattack motivators
The report identifies three “core interests” over which China is willing to authorize offensive cyber operations if threatened, related to the nation’s political system, territory, and economy:
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