At the time that Cisco involved in the “Prism” incident, the market research firm Synergy Research Group released data show that Cisco has beat IBM and HP and become the largest provider of IT products. While Cisco’s annual revenue in China has exceed 1.6Billion USD, accounting for 30% of the total profits.
Last week, former CIA employee Edward Snowden’s “prism leak door” is called reality version of American movies, handsome agent, glamorous pole dancing girlfriend, sophisticated state secrets, betrayal and exile, the Secret bureaucratic system and lies, cohabitation Kong, depressed black president, personal privacy and national conflicts of interest …… various elements are available, and some even have played a good title: “leaker Snowdon.”
This is the so called “Prism”, This is called “Prism”, the secret use of a super software to monitor Internet users and telephone records. Now, about a hero or a traitor Snowdon debate is still in progress, Snowden’s whereabouts is still pending. Apart from these troubles to see companies and industries involved, the stakes is obvious.
According to Snowden’s disclosing, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, FaceBook, AOL, PalTalk, Skype, YouTube and other nine companies has been involved in espionage allegations, these companies are suspected to have open the servers to the U.S National Security Agency, allowing the government to easily monitor millions mails, instant calls and access of the data of millions of Internet users worldwide.
Subsequently, these companies strongly denied the charges. But by June 14, Facebook, Microsoft for the first time admitted that the U.S government did have asked for user data from them and they have published some of the information and data content in order to get rid of the morass “Prism door” as soon as possible.
At the same time, China domestic media has shifted the perspective of some U.S communication companies which may threat the national potential information security, such as Cisco because Snowdon exposed the NSA monitor Chinese network and computers via Cisco routers.
Allegedly, Cisco have participated almost all the large network projects, involving government, customs, postal services, banking, railways, civil civil aviation, medical, military and other critical sectors of network construction, as well as China Telecom, China Unicom and other telecom operators network infrastructure. China Telecom 163 and China Unicom 169 is the two of Chinese most important backbone networks, both of which has carries more than 80 percent of China’s Internet traffic. But in these two backbone network, Cisco accounted for more than 70% share, and dominated all the super-core nodes.
However, Cisco is the main supplier of equipment and network technology of American government and military communications. In 2006, the In 2006 the United States 115 government departments involved a “Cyber Storm” network warfare exercises, Cisco is one of the designers of the important exercises. Therefore, security experts worry that once the war broke out, the U.S. government is likely to take advantage of Cisco products deployed worldwide to launch cyber warfare, the implement a fatal strike of their enemy.
Some fine moves of Chinese telecommunication operators may reflect this concern, In October last year, China Unicom completed 169 core backbone network node cluster router Wuxi relocation project, which is the communications industry’s first cluster of Cisco routers relocation project. This is likely to be a landmark event, indicating that China’s telecommunications companies have begun to address the issue of information security, and began to carry out the replacement of existing network equipment.
At the time that Cisco involved in the “Prism” incident, the market research firm Synergy Research Group released data shows, Cisco has beat IBM and HP and become the largest provider of IT products. While Cisco’s annual revenue in China has exceed 1.6Billion USD, accounting for 30% of the total profits. It can be expected, “prism” incident may make Cisco’s business in China clobbered. In addition to Cisco, it is anticipated Microsoft, Apple and other companies’ business in Chinese will also be affected.
In fact, at the time of the U.S blocked Huawei, ZTE last year, security experts had called on on the government should pay attention to our country’s network security issues. Therefore, I believe, in the rise of cloud computing and big data, the state the state has been increasing emphasis on network and information security at the time, “prism” incident is a bigger warning, perhaps the next will be on our network security legislation, the government , the central enterprises, the military and other domestic purchases made explicit.
From the enterprise technical reserves point of view, China’s current level of communication technology has reached world standards, local businesses have been able to build a comprehensive bearer network and security operations. Therefore, the upgrade national information security strategy will not only be good for Huawei, ZTE and other communications equipment manufacturers, but also benefit the extensive companies involved in cloud computing, big data.
For example, the forthcoming cloud computing standards will likely pay more attention to security issues, which will enable local production of hardware and software, system integration and cloud computing platform provider usher in greater development space. Similarly, large with respect to data centre construction and maintenance, data processing, speech recognition, IT consulting, information security and other enterprises will usher in a huge business opportunity.
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