Salt Typhoon Is Already Inside – Encryption Doesn’t Solve the Problem

This briefing analyzes Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon as nation-state campaigns that shift focus from endpoints to communications infrastructure—routers, telecom networks, and transport layers—enabling traffic analysis, long-term persistence, and potential disruption; it evaluates the strategic implications of infrastructure compromise and recommends hardened transport (Dispersive Stealth Networking) to fragment encrypted traffic across independent paths to deny adversaries coherent session visibility while acknowledging that transport hardening complements but does not replace identity and endpoint defenses.