Government cares about security from foreign threat actors. The loss of data to esponiage is a critical threat. Most companies I know treat Security engineers

Government cares about security from foreign threat actors. The loss of data to esponiage is a critical threat. Most companies I know treat Security engineers similarly and pay not all that much higher. There is world of enterprise IT outside the silicon valley, the pay is not all the much higher. Despite all the recent threats and ransomware attacks security is not treated as it should be.