Chairman of the Security Innovation Network, Robert Rodriguez, says Washington must find a way to confront China's new leadership without worsening what's increasingly being called the "Cyber Cold War".

President Obama wasn't naming names when he declared in his State of the Union address last month that Washington "knows foreign countries are swiping America's corporate secrets".

He may not have been, but others are, and it's China that's being called out as the culprit.

Robert Rodriguez spent 22-years as a special agent with the United States Secret Service and is chairman of the Security Innovation Network.