Security Gets Political

Starting in 2015, policy makers started to pay a lot more attention to the security industry, with debates around encryption, data privacy, surveillance, information sharing and more. Those debates only grew more heated in 2016, starting with a fight over encryption between Apple and the FBI, in which the law enforcement organization tried to compel Apple to open an encrypted iPhone involved in the San Bernardino terrorist attack last year. The FBI ultimately went around Apple to hack the iPhone in question. The political conversation on security continues as the Democratic National Committee suffered a security breach, leading to a trove of private emails being shared on WikiLeaks, and now U.S. intelligence agencies are reporting that state-sponsored Russian hackers likely influenced 2016 Presidential election.