Source: Loren Thomson Forbes
As federal spending on national security has leveled off in recent years, big defense contractors have worked hard to secure a role in one of the few market segments expected to keep growing: cyberwarfare. It’s a relatively new field where the terminology hasn’t stabilized yet, but for the purposes of this posting, cyberwarfare means three things: attacking enemy networks, exploiting enemy information flows, and defending friendly networks. Most of the money Washington is currently spending on cyberwarfare goes to the latter activity — securing friendly networks — but offensive activities seem to be growing faster over time. They’re really just different sides of the same coin, since it’s hard to be good at defending computer networks if you don’t have a thorough understanding of how to attack them.