McCain: Russian, Chinese hackers have advantages over US in cyber security battles
Aug 28, 2015, 3:54pm MST
Updated Aug 31, 2015, 7:50am MST
Mike Sunnucks Senior Reporter Phoenix Business Journal
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Friday the U.S. is at a cyber security disadvantage against Russian and Chinese hackers aiming at American government and private sector security systems.
During remarks in Phoenix before Valley Partnership, McCain said the U.S. has a distinct advantage over its adversaries in other security realms but that cyber security is one place where hackers hold the edge.
Wikimedia Commmons / www.elbpresse.de Hackers are big threats to U.S. companies and security.
McCain told the commercial real estate group that Russian hackers in particular have become more brazen and don’t stop their efforts when detected.
Hackers have compromised federal personnel records, grabbed public company news and information in order to make illegal insider stock trades and compromised banks, retailers and other business systems.
McCain worries about hackers bringing down communications and satellites.
The U.S. has plenty of demand for cyber security workers. And, a shortage of those workers puts U.S. companies and governments at disadvantage against hackers.
A study by Burning Glass Technologies said there were more than 238,000 postings for cyber security jobs in the U.S. in 2014.
Those jobs pay on average close to $84,000 per year. Arizona had the 15th most of those openings among U.S. states with 5,502 available security jobs last year.
Burning Glass said cyber security job openings grew in the state by 87 percent since 2010.
California had the most high-tech security openings last year, 28,744, followed by the District of Columbia, 27,246, Virginia, 20,276 and Texas, 18,525.
Washington D.C. had the most postings among U.S. cities followed by New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles.
McCain told the real estate group that smartphones and their accompanying technology are changing the world on the same scale as the printing of the Gutenberg Bible in the 15th century.
McCain said technology and automation are also reducing the number of manufacturing jobs even as some U.S. companies bring home production operations back from offshore or look to grow here.
Cyber security isn’t McCain’s only worry. He points to the wave of refugees across the globe, ISIS’s continued threats, Russia’s reach into the Ukraine and potentially other neighboring countries and the Arctic and sequestration induced U.S. defense spending cuts.
“The world is in far more danger than at any time since World War II,” McCain said during this Phoenix remarks.
McCain has been holding town halls at a number of businesses. Another is planned today at Southwest Airlines in Phoenix.
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