Foreign states are extracting openly, legally and at scale from Western systems that were built on trust, transparency, and collaboration. Paul Maddison, Australia, and New Zealand Country Manager at Strider Technologies, talks about a threat that rarely announces itself. “Strider is a company that was founded six years ago in response to this sort of new and rapidly evolving geopolitical era we find ourselves in,” Maddison says. Western nations, he explains, are now confronting competitors “from authoritarian states like the PRC, Russia and Iran who are leveraging their instruments of national power to drive global campaigns to identify and transfer disruptive technologies back into their innovation ...