Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
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I was at Davos last year in a cyber forum, and one of the speakers was talking about salt typhoon. It was closed door, room of 60 cyber folks. And she's, wait. How many people know about this? It was five out of 60.
What we learned was that China has infiltrated major telecommunications carriers in The US for all intents and purposes fully. They can listen to the phone calls, the lawful intercept plug in points. They have control of those, they can just flip turn along at any time and listen to I mean, what do you do on your phone? You know, how much of your life runs on your phone? Basically, all of it. And what we continue to learn is that that's true for everybody everybody in The United States. Rather than trying to ferret through the existing carriers on Guam and find all the China and try and try to
to all these major telcos. The more folks who are kind of bringing, connecting the dots, speaking the same language, I think the better off we all are from a national security and economic prosperity perspective.
In late twenty twenty four, The United States confirmed that Chinese hackers had infiltrated every major American cellular carrier. The operation Salt Typhoon gave China access to lawful intercept systems, live phone calls, and the communications of senior government officials. It was not a one time breach. It was the product of an industry wide failure in cybersecurity. Years before the story broke, a former Green Beret and Palantir executive had started building a new kind of cell network, one designed to operate securely on top of compromised physical infrastructure. The Navy was an early p
Thank you guys for being here. We are very lucky to have Justin Finnelli, the CTO of the Navy, on his second tour back with the Navy and in this role. And we have John Doyle, the founder and CEO of Cape, with us. And we're gonna have a terrific discussion about building for the country, building for the Navy, partnering with the Navy, and all the technology transformation work that is going on at the navy. So thanks guys for being with us today. Thank you. For having me. Justin, just give us a quick background. Who you are? What's your job today? How long you've worked in this space?
Thanks for having me. Often to be with Winners. That's actually a big part of my job is, hey. Let's figure out where needs are, where gaps are, listen to our sailors and marines, spend time with them, and then connect dots for people who are bringing either improvements or breakthroughs. The name of the game is how do we lessen pain and increase gain. And so across the board, it's a little bit of signal to noise detection. The good news is we have a really healthy and thriving and growing ecosystem. And so this is not a me thing. This is, hey, how do we make sure that folks who are super innov
That sounds like a Cisco term where
I used to work.
Sounds like Cisco term.
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