{"id":29402,"date":"2016-08-26T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-sets-new-tone-in-drafting-cybersecurity-rules"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:24","slug":"china-sets-new-tone-in-drafting-cybersecurity-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/china-sets-new-tone-in-drafting-cybersecurity-rules","title":{"rendered":"China Sets New Tone in Drafting Cybersecurity Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been seeing this for the recent weeks; I find it interesting and another step in China\u2019s own move to be a global leader of tech. Could be either good or bad in the longer term.<\/p>\n

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China is taking a more inclusive tack in instituting cybersecurity standards<\/a> for foreign technology companies, allowing them to join a key government committee in an effort to ease foreign concerns over the controls.<\/p>\n

The committee under the government\u2019s powerful cyberspace administration is in charge of defining cybersecurity standards. For the first time, the body earlier this year allowed select foreign companies\u2014 Microsoft<\/a> Corp. MSFT −0.39 %<\/a>, Intel<\/a> Corp. INTC 0.43 %<\/a>, Cisco Systems<\/a> Inc. CSCO 0.14 %<\/a> and International Business Machines Corp.\u2014to take an active part in drafting rules, rather than participating simply as observers, said people familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n

How much influence the foreign companies will have over committee deliberations remains to be seen, these people said. Over the past few months, the committee\u2019s seven working groups\u2014which focus on encryption, big data and other cybersecurity issues\u2014have each met at least once.<\/p>\n

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I have been seeing this for the recent weeks; I find it interesting and another step in China\u2019s own move to be a global leader of tech. Could be either good or bad in the longer term. China is taking a more inclusive tack in instituting cybersecurity standards for foreign technology companies, allowing them to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1625,1490,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-government","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60618,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions\/60618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}