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Yeah, there's a cottage industry of security firms who sell exploits to the U.S. government directly or indirectly through big defense contractors. Many, and I
by wahern 8y ago
Yeah, there's a cottage industry of security firms who sell exploits to the U.S. government directly or indirectly through big defense contractors. Many, and I personally have assumed _most_ (but without checking), are American firms.
And, frankly, the Israeli industry has much to gain by advertising their prowess in order to bolster their IT security bone fides internationally. American firms are probably more discrete, so tabulating widely published exploits by country of origin wouldn't be a great metric to determine which country is doing the most work crafting exploits.
- avip 8y ago>the Israeli industry has much to gain by advertising their prowess in order to bolster their IT security bone fides internationally Absolutely. The Israeli Cybersecurity brand is built partially on such (sometimes unsubstantial) PR. The bubble is doing well though! almost 500 startups, > 1Billion$ VC funding in 2018 alone. Devs are happy.
- golergka 8y agoCurious as to why you think it's a bubble. Israeli startups have had many successful exits in recent years, although mostly acquisitions, and not many big flops.
- avip 8y agoIt's just my unsubstantial opinion. Too many players raising too much money in a consolidated market. Bar some notable exceptions (NSO), this herd of misguided lemmings has one way out - acquisition by Checkpoint/Imperva/SalesForce. But maybe I'm wrong and we'll see 100 Mobileyes in the coming decade.
- golergka 8y agoOh, in case you meant infosec in particular, you might be right, I don't really know much about this industry.
- avip 8y agoYes the numbers given above are just for the cyber sector.
- toomanyrichies 8y agoAt the risk of being pedantic- did you by chance mean "unsubstantiated"? :-) unsubstantiated (adj)- not supported or proven by evidence. unsubstantial (adj)- lacking material substance
- avip 8y agoThanks. Your correction is welcome and not pedantic at all (it's rather substantial). More so as I've repeated this mistake twice.
- toomanyrichies 8y ago> it's rather substantial I see what you did there.