China’s Cyber Silence is More Worrying Than Russia’s Noise, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist Says

NTT’s chief cybersecurity strategist Mihoko Matsubara on the new geopolitics of hacking, the “chicken and egg” problem of 5G, and the AGI threat to society.

Mihoko Matsubara is chief cybersecurity strategist at Japan-based NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company). NTT was founded in 1952, privatized in 1985, and has developed into a major international telecommunications firm with hundreds of thousands of employees and a presence in more than 70 countries.

Previously, Matsubara had been VP and public sector CSO Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks, a cyber security policy director at Intel, a geopolitical cybersecurity analyst at Hitachi, advisor to the Japanese government on cybersecurity strategy, and spent nine years as a foreign liaison officer for the Japanese ministry of defense – with a John Hopkins MA in international relations along the way.

She has a deep understanding of global cybersecurity and its interplay with geopolitics; she talks to different companies ...