I work for one of the companies listed in this article as a "Cyber Security Engineer." I have 2 issues with this article. First, the vast majority of cyber secu

I work for one of the companies listed in this article as a "Cyber Security Engineer." I have 2 issues with this article. First, the vast majority of cyber security work is defence. I would guess the percentage of people working defence is 100x more than the number of people working offence. (And yet the people on offence always have the upper hand, but that is a different story.) Second, most of the hiring for offensive talent is at the Speculation phase. NSA doesn't really outsource much of its work on this kind of stuff. The contractors know that the demand will eventually ramp up but it hasn't yet. So most offensive guys at contractors spend their time doing Internal R&D to use as demos for the government. Some day NSA will ask for help, but it isn't today. When it does though the contractors are trying to be ready.