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A recent article in The Economist questions whether it is safe and
secure to trust a company's computer network to a Chinese
company. The specific concern in that The Economist
article related to "a Chinese company with
connections to the Chinese government and the People's
Liberation Army (PLA)" that would be providing
services inside the corporate firewall. An unnamed
former member of the U.S. Joint Chief of Staffs minced no words
about this: "We'd be crazy to let
[that Chinese company] on our networks, just
crazy!"
Assuming that these fears are justified, what do you do if you
can't avoid (or don't know if you can avoid) working with
Chinese companies on sensitive matters? Not all of us (or our
businesses) can "travel light" everywhere, all the
time. But in an increasingly inter-networked world, how can
you rely on your business partners to do the same level of
diligence that you would? in the short term, your contracts
are a good place to start: check for clauses providing
indemnification and permitting auditing, and engage in serious
discussions about security all around.
In the longer term, we may have to hope that enlightened
self-interest yields more emphasis on business integrity from
China, as this article suggests is happening.
This may be just a hope, as similar hopes have existed for
respect for improving protection for human rights and intellectual
property.
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