According[1] to Dan Geer[2], the intelligence community is all offense: Chris Inglis, recently retired NSA Deputy Director, remarked that if we were to

According[1] to Dan Geer[2], the intelligence community is all offense: Chris Inglis, recently retired NSA Deputy Director, remarked that if we were to score cyber the way we score soccer, the tally would be 462-456 twenty minutes into the game, i.e., all offense. I will take his comment as confirming at the highest level not only the dual use nature of cybersecurity but also confirming that offense is where the innovations that only States can afford is going on. [1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt [2] (among other credentials) CISO at In-Q-Tel