Which includes recruiting useful & sometimes-unwitting US persons.
#China is the juggernaut in this space, but so many autocrats are now running same playbook.
3/ It's also good to see the insider problem at US companies continues to be a focus.
Whether it's #SaudiArabia with #Twitter (speaking of countries that run big online harassment operations targeting dissidents including in the US...) or #China with #Zoom.
4/ QUICK VIDEO: Not sure what "transnational repression" means?
@SecMayorkas announced that @CISAgov will be developing a community protection program for orgs in the US that are targeted for digital repression by autocrats overseas.
Happy to see it.
This has been a huge gap. 1/
2/ So many human rights groups & others seek safety in the US from autocratic repression.
Yet tech has helped autocrats extend their reach across borders & export fear in to the US.
Meanwhile, these groups are chronically under resourced.
Defending themselves is hard.
3/ Even well-resourced companies have trouble when targeted with sophisticated hackers.
Think of how much harder it is for orgs that don't even have someone to fix the printer.
However bad you think the problem is... it's worse.