Corporate Cybersecurity Is Becoming Geopolitical. Are U.S. Tech Companies Ready?

This week’s news that Microsoft, Facebook, FireEye, and Google disrupted ongoing Russian and Iranian influence campaigns should garner significant attention in corporate boardrooms. The revelation of this fresh round of foreign hacking highlights important points about the intersection of business, geopolitics, and hacking that too often go overlooked — points that are especially important for platform businesses. Private companies are now on the front lines of defending U.S. interests from foreign governments, and this will require a much more proactive stance than traditional IT security measures.