Lawfare Daily: Peter Hyun on the Tech Supply Chain and National Security

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Peter Hyun, then-Acting Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, discusses with Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman the FCC’s data security and cybersecurity enforcement authorities and how those authorities fit into addressing national security threats to the communications supply chain. He covers some recent enforcement actions and issues in this area, ranging from the FCC’s data breach notification rule to submarine cables to rip-and-replace efforts targeting Chinese telecom components, and he offers predictions for how technology supply chains, national security risks, and entanglement with China may evolve in the years to come.

Note: Peter Hyun was in his position at the FCC at the time of recording and is now no longer with the Commission following the change in administration.

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1:38.7	rules, there haven't been many federal level breach notification rules, as you had mentioned.
1:42.9	And it makes sense that because we regulate critical infrastructure, we'd want this sector to have a rule such as this.
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1:56.6	Hion at the time of recording and now previously, acting chief for the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission.
2:05.1	The telecom sector is one of the ripest targets for threat actors all across a world.
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