A whole another paper was requested after I had oompleted that one which dealt specifically with the wireless threats (i.e. blackberrys, pdas and laptops) and China, but it was much smaller in comparison. It was directed more at internal company users taking company owned equipment to China and the who/what/when/where/how they should connect, and what to avoid.

Hope you don’t mind but I posted your comment to main body of the article. Thought it added a lot, so pasted it at the bottom of the article.

One of the points I addressed in that paper had to do with the internal threat from both non-secured (physical) machines interacting with a company machine and/or a vendor (remote) connected machine that may be similarly connected.

Both can be extremely detrimental to the business aspects, having known or suspected compromised machine, bots or malware spreaders connecting to an internal secure network is a sure-fire way to ensure you will be attacked at some point. And that’s not even touching on the wireless machine topic of laptops.

I did do a bit of research on Chinese companies (that reported it) to show the amount of internal infections, from virus, malware and bothnet infections etc. A lot of that stemmed from using non-licensed or pirated software and at the same and after looking at some trend analysis over year to see what the comparison numbers were.

I found a substantial difference, in that the Chinese Machines were more infected, nearly 20-30% of the time more, over machines from Europe or USA. That being said, dealing with a local Chinese company that provides some sort of service (i.e. IT support or any sort of connection to your network) is like playing Russian Roulette with 5 chambers filled.