This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.Listeners, Ting here—your seasoned Sherpa for all things China, cyber, and staying one quirky step ahead of the digital apocalypse. Let’s dive headfirst into this week’s electric battle on Tech Shield: US vs China, where the cyber defense news cycle has been so relentless, even my VPN begged for a coffee break.First, you know there’s drama when America’s digital firewalls are headline news. Last Thursday, CISA—the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—issued an emergency directive for every federal agency running Cisco firewalls. Chinese state-affiliated hackers, dubbed ArcaneDoor by Cisco, exploited two fresh zero-days—those are CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 for the nerdy among us—in Cisco’s ASA and Secure Firewall Threat Defense software. These flaws let attackers grab root access, yank out logs, disable protections, and even brick a device before forensic teams could say “where’d my logs go?” The UK’s cyber agency joined the warning chorus, and let’s just say, panic patching ensued. Palo Alto Networks watched the campaign spread from Europe into the heart of US critical infrastructure, warning that these guys move fast and now actively target American entities. If you haven’t patched those Cisco firewalls, the ArcaneDoor is already wide open.On the government front, Admiral Daryl Caudle—the new CNO, or Chief of Naval Operations—channeled his inner Sun Tzu and made targeting China’s C4ISR—Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance—the whole alphabet soup—his number one cyber priority. The focus? Scale up electronic warfare and dedicated cyber teams to block enemies from snooping, especially around strategically explosive spots like Taiwan. There’s a push for surviving in degraded, disrupted environments with new decentralized comms architectures and plenty of space-based sensors. Deception and deception training are in. In short, it’s cyber chess, not checkers.It’s not all firewalls and admirals, though. Across American industries, especially in utilities and critical infrastructure, supply chain security shot up the list. With the DoD blacklisting another major Chinese cellular module supplier, utilities now must vet not just who built their hardware, but who coded the firmware, right down to the module level. That’s a seismic regulatory shift that forces everyone to rethink vendor relationships, root out backdoors, and beef up threat assessments—a direct reaction to intelligence warnings that Chinese actors are quietly pre-positioning themselves inside American networks, waiting for the right time to strike.On the tech side, counter-drone strategies took center stage at last week's AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Leaders like Col. Jim Price and Pete Hegseth insisted that the US can’t match China drone-for-drone—DJI all but owns the global drone market—so instead, the Pentagon’s stoking a bonfire of defensive innovation, from jamming to lasers to microwave "drone zappers." There’s no magic bullet, but the approach is getting smarter and more layered.Expert consensus this week: agencies are getting more agile, adversaries are getting even more cunning, and vendor trust is the new digital fortress. But, there are gaps. Persistent zero-days, supply chain risks, and rapidly evolving drone threats mean the US is in an arms race that demands constant innovation and workforce upskilling. James Azar, CISO sage, summed it up: treat resilience as national security, double down on patching, and don't forget—mentor your next-gen cyber whizzes before foreign recruiters slide into their DMs.Thanks for tuning in, listeners! Subscribe so you never miss the next cyber plot twist. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.For more http://www.quietplease.aiGet the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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