Countering Nation-State Cyber Espionage: A CISO Field Guide
ComputerWeekly, Friday, March 28th, 2025
The rise of DeepSeek has prompted the usual well-documented concerns around AI, but also raised worries about its potential links to the Chinese state. The Security Think Tank considers the steps security leaders can take to counter threats posed by nation state industrial espionage?
Quorum Cyber's recently released Global Cyber Risk Outlook Report 2025 outlines how nation-state cyber activities, particularly from China, are evolving. According to the report, China's cyber espionage operations will likely increase in 2025, with attacks targeting Western critical national infrastructure (CNI), intellectual property, and sensitive corporate data. The report also highlights that AI-powered cyber capabilities are being leveraged by China-state-sponsored, and other, threat actors to conduct advanced campaigns and evade detection more effectively.