After the US Department of Commerce upgraded its export control on Huawei, on May 22nd, the US Department of Commerce listed 33 China technology companies and institutions such as Beijing Computer Science Research Center, Congyun Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology and Qihoo 360 on the "entity list" on the grounds of "national security", prohibiting these companies and institutions from using all American technologies without the specific approval of the US government, and they will also be unable to conduct any commercial transactions with the United States.
It is worth noting that in this list, network security software companies other than traditional chips, precision instrument manufacturing, high-performance computers and communications have appeared for the first time.
IT is reported that, except for six enterprises in the trade and textile industry, the remaining 18 enterprises and institutions are all technology-based enterprises, all of which have technologies that can be used in China's future industrial infrastructure, including seven AI enterprises, which means that the "technology war" between China and the United States has expanded from the cutting-edge IT hardware field to the IT software field.
The "entity list" on the list means that a foreign company's technology and ability are enough to threaten the interests of the United States.
Many people think that Qihoo 360, as a network security software company, is included in the "entity list" because in March this year, Qihoo 360 actually revealed the 1 1 year network penetration attacks of the CIA on key areas such as China's aerospace, energy and scientific research, which directly cut off the source of intelligence theft by the US government on China, thus making the US Department of Commerce take a fancy to Qihoo 360.
As a network security software company, how strong is the technology of 360? What few people know is that 360, a low-key company, is the only China company in the world that can keep pace with Google and Microsoft and has the largest network security big data in the world. Its team of security experts has the reputation of "the strongest white hat army in the East", and it receives thanks from giant manufacturers such as Apple, Google and Microsoft every year in terms of vulnerability mining.
Globally, 360 has a system that can calculate, retrieve, correlate, analyze and lock network threats in real time, and detect threats in global cyberspace around the clock. This ability is not a boast written by the company in PPT. In fact, 360 also helps the FBI quickly crack cyber attacks.
In 20 16, the global internet of things suffered its first large-scale attack, and the east coast of the United States was cut off in a large area. After a year, when the FBI announced on Twitter that the case was solved, it directly thanked 360 people for their help in case analysis and investigation. At that time, 360 Company took the lead in discovering and tracking this botnet named Mirai on a global scale with its powerful security big data.
In March, Qihoo 360 revealed that the network infiltration and attack of American intelligence agencies on China continued for 1 1 year, which shows that Qihoo 360, a private Internet enterprise, has super network security technical strength and can be used as a "civilian weapon" to protect national network security.
It is said that after years of efforts and exploration, 360 has accumulated a unique knowledge base of advanced persistent threat intelligence and attack and defense in the world, first discovered more than 40 overseas advanced persistent threat organizations targeting China, and saved and protected the network security losses of thousands of important government departments and scientific research institutions in China.
A man is innocent, but he is guilty. Like Huawei, as a private enterprise, it unconsciously has the world's leading technical energy. How can this not make America afraid?