Why the North Korean Remote IT Worker Threat Persists and Continues to Damage U.S. National Security

2430 Group Director, Glenn Chafetz writes in the April 25, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs that both the US government and private firms are now well aware of the infiltration of remote North Korean IT workers in the computer systems of thousands (if not tens of thousands) of US private sector computer systems. Yet, the response is nowhere near up to the task of solving the problem. The government lacks the resources to protect hundreds of thousands of US companies, and the companies themselves underestimate the risks of the problem to their operations, in part because of poor detection and reporting. Consequently, they take the path of least resistance and lowest immediate cost, which is doing nothing. Managers need to understand that this is not just a national security threat, which they should care about, but a business threat that can destroy revenue and value via ransomware, sabotage, and intellectual property theft.

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Image: Apple wireless (Korean) keyboard is by Rupert Kim and is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.