DEF CON 33 - Threat Dynamics on the Seas - John Mauger, & Michael Sulmeyer & Adam Segal
Source: YouTube · DEFCONConference · published Oct 10, 2025 · 41:21
BLUF: China has evolved into a cyber superpower under Xi Jinping, focusing on Taiwan and South China Sea scenarios, with significant implications for US national security and maritime industries.
Key Takeaways:
• China created Strategic Support Forces in 2012, integrating cyber with electronic, psychological, space, and information warfare [3:57]
• Volt Typhoon represents Chinese actors prepositioning malware on US critical infrastructure for potential conflict disruption [6:47]
• US military cyber missions: defend networks, generate offensive options, and defend nation from significant cyber attacks [10:23]
• Navy struggles to view cyber as power projection rather than IT or intelligence problem [13:00]
• China's Belt and Road Initiative shifted from physical to digital infrastructure, controlling choke points [27:55]
Chinese cyber operations have progressed from IP theft to sophisticated prepositioning for potential conflict scenarios [36:14].
Publish Date: June 15, 2023
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All right. Good afternoon, everyone. >> Oh, you guys can do better than that. This is 3:00 in the afternoon. Yeah. All right. We got a big discussion coming up this afternoon. Thanks so much for uh taking the time to come out. Good afternoon, everyone. >> All right. That's fantastic. Yeah. So, uh hey, we're going to talk a little bit uh today. This is a talk that's sponsored by the Maritime Hacking Village. Uh we're going to talk about the intersection from a policy perspective of what's happening out in the Indo-Pacific region. Uh you know we face a uh tremendous adversary in terms of uh China and and their growth and competition in this space. Uh and and it's happening in the backdrop of uh this maritime industry that provides uh 90% of the goods movement around the world. it provides fo…