‘Two sessions’ 2024: US trade sanctions, software gap taking toll on China’s cybersecurity ambitions
- Supply disruptions are limiting the country’s ability to make high-end cybersecurity products, according to QAX chairman Qi Xiangdong
- China must innovate faster to stay ahead of ‘increasingly covert and unpredictable’ cyberattacks, Qi says
Mounting US trade sanctions and domestic software that is lagging behind American-made technology pose the biggest threats to China’s cybersecurity, according to the chairman of one of the country’s leading cybersecurity companies.
Qi is also a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top political advisory body.
According to the report, Qi said cyberattacks were becoming increasingly covert and unpredictable, requiring technologies to improve to better detect threats. “Only by innovating at a faster pace can we outpace cybercriminals,” he said.
Most leading hardware and software technology were still being produced by Western countries, Qi said, which gave them a natural advantage in collecting intelligence about vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.
QAX gained international recognition when it served as the official cybersecurity services and antivirus software sponsor for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
