[aborsy]

CEOs, executives, members of parliaments, journalists, researchers at industrial labs, those working in defense/military, etc are at elevated risk of being hacked by governments and hacking companies such as NSO.

I wonder how these people protect their digital assets? Are there guidelines?

For example, if I am Microsoft CEO, would it be okay if I use the closed source iPhone from a competing company? Or perhaps these people use special hardened devices?

Because even Apple CEO uses iPhone, and Pegasus apparently could hack any iPhone with zero click. So what prevents acquisition of highly valuable inside information by NSO or its customers (sensitive data about the company, iOS source code, implanting malware by infecting Apple engineers for the next exploit, etc)?

[slim]

If I was NSO, I would have a team who's sole purpose is to make sure they maintain access inside Apple, Google and Microsoft.

[Barrin92]

> So what prevents acquisition of highly valuable inside information by NSO or its customers

Given the Bezos hack two years ago I think the answer to that question is actually, very little. Cisco and Blackberry for example used to provide hardened phones for executives but with the prominence of modern smartphones it seems like even CEOs of large companies are increasingly on insecure hardware.