Critical infrastructure security, IP theft touched on at Homeland Security panel’s China hearing

Lawmakers on a House Homeland Security subcommittee explored the U.S. response to Chinese government efforts to infiltrate critical infrastructure operations, as well as to steal high-tech and other intellectual property, at a hearing with DHS and FBI officials that largely focused on non-cyber aspects of “Chinese Communist Party aggression” against the United States.

The counterterrorism, law enforcement and intelligence subcommittee hearing, “A Security Sprint: Assessing the U.S. Homeland’s Vulnerabilities to Chinese Communist Party Aggression,” featured testimony from DHS’ Iranga...