EP#142: Supply Chain Conspiracy Securities

• Misha Govshteyn
  • CEO of MacroFab
  • Founder of Alert Logic
• Christopher Church
  • Founder & CPO of MacroFab
  • Founder of Dynamic Perception
  • Co-Founder/Chief Architect at Alert Logic
  • Chris was on a previous MEP episode about the recent Chinese tariffs
• Supply chain hardware and software security
  • This topic spurs from recent allegations from bloomberg about the possibility of a hardware supply chain infiltration in Super Micro Computer Inc, which may cause security concerns for servers owned by Amazon, Apple, and Facebook
  • Underlying premise of the alleged hardware hack
  • What is the general structure of intelligence agencies that makes something like this probable or possible?
  • Existing public cases that are similar
  • Is this hack even technically feasible?
  • What impact should this have on our supply chain decisions?

Tags: Amazon, Apple, Bloomberg, china, Christopher Church, Conspiracy, electronics podcast, Facebook, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Misha Govshteyn, NSA, Security, Supply Chain