Dakota Cary is a China-focused consultant at SentinelOne and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. Dakota previously was a research analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology on the CyberAI Project.
He focuses on China’s efforts to develop its hacking capabilities. His reports examine artificial intelligence and cybersecurity research at Chinese universities, the People’s Liberation Army’s efforts to automate software vulnerability discovery, China's vulnerability collection system, and policies to improve the country’s cybersecurity-talent pipeline. He has been featured and quoted on his expertise in a variety of outlets, including The Economist, MIT Technology Review, Associated Press, Financial Times, and Wired. Cary has also testified before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
China's claims of hacks and espionage lack the rigorous technical detail seen in western threat intel. Why the asymmetry, and how does it benefit the PRC?
