Mark a Russo Cissp-Issap

Defeating Communism One More Time Mark a Russo Cissp-Issap

AN ESSAY AND A SOLUTIONWhile the Trump Administration has recruited some of the best (and controversial) minds in fighting global terrorism, it has yet to identify and recruit experts with the credentials to defeat threats to the US and its allies in cyberspace. The Chinese cyber threat is the #1 menace in the domain of cyberspace as well as Russia, Iran, and North Korea. While the US was historically focused on the former Soviet Union, i.e., Russia, and more recently in the physical world, the threat of radical jihadist terrorism, the Chinese have grown economically, technologically, militarily, and politically to pose the gravest threat to US cyber interests. The solution to defeating Chinese cyber operations may be found in the leveraging the Administration's counter-terror expertise and applying principles from seasoned experts to thwart and defeat government-sponsored Chinese hackers. The solution will more be found in active use of "soft cyber power" (SCP), that is primarily information dominance focused, AND "hard-cyber power" (HCP), which will be the more comprehensive solution to defeating Chinese supremacy in cyberspace. Soft Military-Information Dominance in the "Age of China"