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Replace "intelligence community" with "cybersecurity program" at a big company, and you may see it's not so black and white. If your security department is good

Replace "intelligence community" with "cybersecurity program" at a big company, and you may see it's not so black and white. If your security department is good (especially at prevention), you have few major incidents and people wonder why you need them. But they could also be useless or too big, and your company just doesn't have any major cyber threats. Maybe (probably) there is room to reduce intelligence budgets, but how and where is not so simple. Unfortunately it's a complex problem that would need study before anything is changed. These populist "defund" ideas sound good but are not the way to go imo

logicallee 5y ago
The benefits of a "cybersecurity program" at a big company are very clear: they keep employees safe from outsiders who attempt to infiltrate the organization, exfiltrate data, etc. However, aren't these exact things literally the tasks of intelligence services? (infiltration, exfiltration)? If so it seems that there is is no benefit to funding them. Besides what you've written about an analogy with cybersecurity programs at big companies, can you think of any specific benefits to having an intelligence community, and if so what?