How International Acquisitions Can Become a Cybercrime Frontier

Agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Treasury Department are collaborating to evaluate virtual threats to national security. Agency leadership from the FBI, Treasury, and more spoke during an Aspen Institute event on the U.S.’s current strategies to tackle cybersecurity as a national security matter––a provision mandated by President Joe Biden’s recent National Cyber Strategy. Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is screening foreign investments and international corporate acquisitions and mergers to ensure the safe transfer of technology and absence of malwares entering and exiting the U.S.