Can the U.S. Stop Chinese Hackers? Q&A With Cyber Sleuth Austin Berglas

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http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/09/24/can-the-u-s-stop-chinese-hackers-qa-with-cyber-sleuth-austin-berglas/

By Josh Chin
The Wall Street Journal
Sep 24, 2015

Is there anything the U.S. can do to stop Chinese hackers from getting 
into sensitive computer networks? The short answer, according to former 
Federal Bureau of Investigation cyber sleuth Austin Berglas, is not 
really.

It’s a question that looms large over Washington D.C. as it prepares to 
welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit. Mr. Xi rolls into 
town just a few months after Chinese hackers were fingered as the main 
suspects in the worst-ever publicized breach of U.S. government computer 
systems: the cybertheft of personal information on at least 21 million 
government employees and contractors from the Office of Personnel 
Management.

As head of the cyber branch in the FBI’s New York office, Mr. Berglas 
spent years tracking and battling intrusions by state-sponsored hackers 
into strategic U.S. networks. He recently jumped to the private sector, 
taking up a position as senior managing director with cyber defense firm 
K2 Intelligence. With new insight emerging into the Chinese military’s 
role in hacking, China Real Time’s Josh Chin recently sat down with Mr. 
Berglas to discuss how Chinese hackers work and whether a recent U.S. 
threat of sanctions is likely to slow them down.

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