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Speaker 1: President Pence has been speaking at the Husband Institute in Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. Among his comments, he said that Chinese security

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Speaker 1: agencies have masterminded the wholesale theft of American technology, including

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Speaker 1: cutting edge military blueprints. Of course, this is incredibly relevant,

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Speaker 1: especially in light of the blockbuster Bloomberg business Week story

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Speaker 1: in computer motherboards that were used in everything from the

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Speaker 1: pencil Gone to Amazon to Google. Joining us now is

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Speaker 1: Matt Chiot, vice president chief information security officer at Redlock

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Matt, I want to just start with that

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Speaker 1: story reported by Bloomberg business Week. Are you concerned reading

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Speaker 1: that that China has gotten access to the to our

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Speaker 1: biggest technology companies in the United States as well as

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Speaker 1: potentially the military. You know, absolutely, I think that this

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Speaker 1: story right now. Mindly, all of this is allegedly reportedly.

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Speaker 1: But if what is being reported is true, this could

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Speaker 1: be very, very dangerous. Why Well, it could be dangerous

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Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, but number one, most of

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Speaker 1: the time when we talk about cyber security, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about software based hacks. In this specific incident, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about hardware. Hardware hacks are really ever talked about. It's

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Speaker 1: usually just something that has talked about as being theoretical,

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Speaker 1: something that could happen. If this did in fact happen,

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Speaker 1: we need to remember that allegedly, these chips are so

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Speaker 1: small that they can barely be seen by the human eye.

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Speaker 1: And what happens is with these chips, allegedly is that

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Speaker 1: they allow code to be inserted into the operating system

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Speaker 1: that's running on top of this hardware. This could let

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Speaker 1: somebody do any number of things, including potentially expilter, expiltate data,

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Speaker 1: or do other things perhaps far more Nefaria matt As,

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Speaker 1: the Chief Information Security Officer of Redlock and previously the

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Speaker 1: at Cognizant Technology Solutions. If you received a telephone call,

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Speaker 1: in email, a communication from a client asking what should

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Speaker 1: I do? What would you say as a result of

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Speaker 1: this revelation. The first thing that we would advise them

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Speaker 1: to do is to begin start looking at as part

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Speaker 1: of their third party risk management program to ensure that

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Speaker 1: they are actually looking at the security of the hardware.

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Speaker 1: I have been in many differ and corporate security programs,

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Speaker 1: in very very few of them actually look at the

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Speaker 1: security of the hardware. It's usually implicitly trust. In right,

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Speaker 1: the chip comes from manufacturer X, I don't even look

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Speaker 1: securely in just directly, how do you do this? How

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Speaker 1: do you do it? I mean, do you actually take

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Speaker 1: match what's there with the original design. Most corporate security

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Speaker 1: What's been reported, especially back in right with Amazon Web

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Speaker 1: Services that allegedly found this, they actually didn't even have

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Speaker 1: the expertise. Allegedly, they sourced this out to a hardware

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Speaker 1: security firm that found this. Right, and we need to

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Speaker 1: give major kudos to AWS for finding this if in

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Speaker 1: fact this is true. Um apportedly they were the only

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Speaker 1: ones that found this, and then of course this went

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Speaker 1: to other companies, but absolutely if somebody called me today

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Speaker 1: to immediately invoke a hardware security firm, because more than

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Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about super micro, a legendly right,

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Speaker 1: like election security. Matt, just real quick here, I'm wondering,

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Speaker 1: have the technology to do it. Now. Again, we're talking

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Speaker 1: And again this was only once talked about as being hypothetical,

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Speaker 1: that this is only the beginning. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Matt Chiandi is the vice president

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Speaker 1: and chief information security officer for Redlock. They are based

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and the topic is hacking and infiltration of

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Speaker 1: and the effect on the industry that brings you many

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Speaker 1: clothing and various apparel items. Because the final tariff list

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Speaker 1: his trade representative for China includes textiles and many of

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Speaker 1: founder and the president of Sourcing Journal. Edward, thanks very

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Speaker 1: The harsh reality here is, since China has so much

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Speaker 1: not completely against global trade policy and global trade. So

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Speaker 1: it's really going to impact auto and apparel the most.

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Speaker 1: So if you're looking at the apparel industry, UM, the sewing, thread,

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