Main Street is fighting foreign cyberthreats blind

Published October 19, 2026 5:00am ET

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the threat foreign hackers pose to American businesses is higher than ever.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the White House in 2015, the two governments announced an understanding: neither would conduct nor knowingly support the cyber theft of commercial secrets. Eleven years later, American businesses are still fighting to protect their technology from foreign theft.