Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee Edward? Snowden recently unveiled the big brother's veil. It was exposed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has implemented the top-secret electronic monitoring program, the Prism Project (PRISM), code-named "US-984XN". The Prism Project can provide in-depth monitoring of instant messaging and existing data. Data emails, video and voice chats, movies, photos, VoIP chat content, file transfers, log-in notifications, and social network details available in the PRISM program by the National Security Agency.

When the acquisition and analysis of big data becomes the only way for the prism plan, it is inevitable that companies at the forefront of technology are involved in this plan. The document disclosed by Snowden stated that the prism project could allow intelligence personnel to access the servers of nine major technology companies through the "back door", including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, You Tube, Apple .

In addition to the above-mentioned 9 companies, more media pointed at Cisco. Earlier news showed that Snowden disclosed that the US National Security Agency monitored Chinese networks and computers through Cisco routers.

Such public opinion allegations were formally denied by Cisco on June 18. Similar to Facebook, Microsoft and other "suspicious" companies, they strongly denied similarity. Cisco stated that the "Prism" project is not a Cisco project, and Cisco Networks did not participate in this project. In addition, Cisco does not monitor the communications of ordinary citizens or government departments in China or anywhere in the world.

Network security is no longer a new issue. Over the past few years, Intel, Microsoft, IBM and other companies have been repeatedly questioned. The backdoor issue of Microsoft's operating system has been raised to the point of national security, and IBM's "smart earth" program has also concluded that it may threaten national information security. The exposure of the Prism project appears to be accidental, but also like a concentrated outbreak of cybersecurity issues.

The mountain is raining and the wind is full. The companies involved in the prism program have made various efforts to deny and repair, but in a short period of time, people cannot panic about network security. When it comes to the Chinese market, the general background of market competition is that some people are hurt and some benefit, and it may only be a matter of time.

Backdoor worries

"Frankly speaking, there will definitely be backdoors on network routing switches, which is already a common-sense issue in the industry." A person working in an IT enterprise said.

"But what needs to be distinguished is that, like whether you use a knife to kill people, whether you use a back door or not, this is another matter. If you use it, you will definitely violate legal or moral issues."

The inability to clarify the boundary between use and use makes it extremely difficult to prove the forensic problem of using backdoors to monitor behavior. Between chaos, doubts about "backdoors" always exist.

Typically, Huawei and ZTE have never been able to open the US market mainly because of hidden concerns about network security issues. Last year, after an 11-month investigation of Huawei and ZTE, the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee issued a report saying that US telecommunications operators should not cooperate with Huawei and ZTE, because these two companies "may Pose a threat to US national security. "

In contrast, the Chinese market seems to be more tolerant to foreign companies. Since the reform and opening up, the "market for technology" policy has made foreign companies inevitably beneficiaries of the market economy and also brought a potential threat to network security.

In terms of network infrastructure construction, taking Cisco as an example, some data show that in the past ten years, Cisco has participated in the construction of almost all large-scale network projects in China, involving government, customs, postal services, finance, railways, civil aviation, medical treatment, and military And other important industries. Cisco, China Telecom, China Unicom and other telecom operators, also participated in the network infrastructure. Among the two backbone networks of China Telecom 163 and China Unicom 169, which carry more than 80% of the Internet traffic in China, Cisco accounted for more than 70% of the share And occupy all super core nodes.

The recent rise of cloud services is another undercurrent. Through cooperation with domestic enterprises, Microsoft has realized the landing of Office 365 cloud computing office software and Windows Azure cloud computing platform in China. In December last year, the Chinese website of Amazon's AWS cloud computing product was quietly launched, and cloud computing services were also just around the corner in China. Apple and Google ’s app stores in China also have potential cybersecurity risks from grasping user data.

Some people have described this as the fact that China's information security is virtually useless in the face of the US “Eight Major King Kongs” (Cisco, IBM, Google, Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft) represented by Cisco.

Potential impact

Under the nest, how can there be an egg? From the point of view of the prism incident, it is difficult to avoid the impact of technology companies on denying participation.

A Cisco employee said, "Cisco will definitely be affected."

It is certainly not just Cisco that will be affected. "For security reasons, the market share of foreign-funded enterprises in China will definitely be greatly affected by the reduction in government or state-owned enterprise procurement, but the extent of the impact remains to be seen." Internet expert Li Yinghong judged this way.

He believes that after the prism plan is fermented, the nationality awareness of the IT industry will increase, and the government will gradually eliminate the intervention of foreign investment, but the impact of various enterprises varies. For companies like Apple that sell equipment, the impact is not expected. It also has little effect on Google sites that have left the Chinese market. "The strong national sentiment caused by the actions of the US government may have an indirect impact on US companies including Apple and Google." Li Yinghong said.

In the game of the market, there must be progress if there is a retreat. It seems that Chinese companies can usher in new business opportunities for development. Communication equipment vendors such as Huawei and ZTE, as well as companies involved in cloud computing and big data, such as Digital China, Inspur and Dawning, are among the benefits.

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