Can Supply Chain Security be a Real Thing?

Posted: July 18th, 2019

By Matt Wyckhouse

Matt has 15 years of experience leading and developing advanced software products with a principal focus on capabilities supporting offensive and defensive cyber operations. Prior to starting Finite State, Matt spent most of his career at Battelle, the world’s largest private R&D company. Matt was the technical founder of Battelle’s Cyber Innovations Business Unit and served as its CTO for five years. In that role, Matt oversaw dozens of simultaneous intelligence and security programs, led business development efforts, managed the internal R&D portfolio, and served as product manager for several cutting-edge hardware and software products. Matt spearheaded numerous intelligence programs related to the security of embedded systems and has been a speaker on the subject at government conferences. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Cybersecurity firm Finite State issued a recent report concluding that telecommunications equipment made by Chinese firm Huawei present a higher percentage of security vulnerabilities than equipment produced by other firms.

A story in The Wall Street Journal citied numerous sources inside the Administration who pointed to the report as further evidence that the company’s firmware can’t be trusted.

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