Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the agency's network citing security risks from it being foreign-owned. Over the next two decades, the company would be a regular security concern, not just for its foreign ownership, but for having compromised security on its computers that would expropriate user data.
It is a shame that it seems money (and not anything to affect salaries of those making these decisions) is controlling our cybersecurity and not sound evaluated information. Many time driven by the contractors since there is no real checks n balances of qualifications and contractor power.
Government Still Buying Lenovo Laptops Despite Foreign Ownership, Prior Security Issues
It is a shame that it seems money (and not anything to affect salaries of those making these decisions) is controlling our cybersecurity and not sound evaluated information. Many time driven by the contractors since there is no real checks n balances of qualifications and contractor power.