Posts Tagged: "2020 Global Threat REport"

Cybersecurity is a concern for any business operating in the digital age, but companies with strong intellectual property divisions have some very specific security issues to handle. A recent conference on the subject of Chinese theft of American IP featured comments from Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, who remarked that the FBI has been investigating about 1,000 alleged cases of IP theft from Chinese actors since the China Initiative was launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) in late 2018. Statistics provided by the FBI at that conference showed that technology theft cases involving China grew rapidly between 2008 and 2012, after which a steady rise has continued through 2020.