President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday intended to prevent U.S. companies from conducting business with the Chinese-based tech giant.

The idea that adversaries might reverse engineer NSA exploits is one that military leaders deal with every day. So what's being done to prevent it from happening?

The goal is to build a “superior cybersecurity workforce,” one senior Trump administration official said.

The jump is the result of an effort to identify U.S. victims of foreign espionage, an ODNI official said.

The new regime contrasts from previous “Whac-A-Mole” approaches that were confined to the unclassified space, Grant Schneider said.

“They’re not five years behind nation-states anymore, because the tools have become more ubiquitous,” Grant Schneider says.