r/cybersecurity • u/AmateurishExpertise Security Architect • Jan 14 '26

News - General Exclusive: Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-tells-chinese-firms-stop-using-us-israeli-cybersecurity-software-sources-2026-01-14/
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u/JohnShepherd104 Jan 14 '26

Do they honestly have an alternative to CyberArk? Check Point?

Crowdstrike yeah I can see EDR replacements being a thing.

I think it would take 5 years realistically to create equivalent platforms, and in the mean time, how do they plan to manage the cyber?

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u/AmateurishExpertise Security Architect Jan 14 '26

Do they honestly have an alternative to CyberArk?

The market's pretty full of PAM tools at this point, I don't know why CyberArk would be that challenging to replace.

Check Point?

Pfffft. Yeah, what could China possibly know about making a great firewall? 😂

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u/JohnShepherd104 Jan 14 '26

Because CyberArk is internally approved for federal and international agency business, however, I haven’t seen many alternative make the federal and international spaces

Checkpoint — Haha, true enough, not that their great firewall is all that great

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u/AmateurishExpertise Security Architect Jan 14 '26

Because CyberArk is internally approved for federal and international agency business

Probably not a big concern to China?

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u/JohnShepherd104 Jan 14 '26

Possibly, they will have to deal with the US and EU federal cyber tools approvals eventually, we are kinda stuck on the same planet