Greg Levesque
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Greg Levesque is a co-founder of Strider, which provides actionable data to help organizations protect their technology, talent and supply chains from geopolitical threats.
Eric Levesque
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Eric Levesque is a co-founder of Strider, which provides actionable data to help organizations protect their technology, talent and supply chains from geopolitical threats.
When it comes to state-sponsored corporate espionage, it’s easy to dismiss seemingly unrelated actions as random, unimportant or irrelevant.
Consider the following: China is flooding Silicon Valley with billions of investments in the areas of AI, biotech, autonomous vehicles, quantum computing and semiconductors. They’re investing huge sums in basic R&D in those same areas. There are increasing concerns about professors at U.S.-based universities who are hiding their ties to Chinese research institutions — just last month a Harvard professor was convicted on federal charges.
And, as most technology CEOs in these sectors know, there is an unrelenting effort by firms connected to the People’s Republic of China to compromise their people, networks and systems. Malign actors are hacking into companies, large and small, and adopting blended operations that incorporate nontraditional intelligence collection activities to acquire information on advances in emerging technologies.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that it opens an investigation into Chinese government actions every 10 hours.
When you understand that the PRC is engaged in a generational effort t …
