The Battle for Your Computer: Israel and the Growth of the Global Cyber-Security Industry [1 ed.] 1394174152, 9781394174157

Table of contents :
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1 What Is Cybersecurity?
Chapter 1 The New Gold—Cybersecurity 101
The battle over data
Gold on the cloud
The Internet of Things
Chapter 2 The Keyboard War—How Global Militaries Exploited the New Domain
The new Trojan horse
Hacking public opinion
Chapter 3 “Hello, It’s Me, a Nigerian Prince”—New Crime
Fraud
Extortion
Hacktivism
Chapter 4 The New Money—Catalysts of Cybercrime
The dark web
Bitcoin
Section 2 Cybernation
Chapter 5 The Pioneer—The Story of Check Point
Before cyber was fully cyber
Chapter 6 The Love Letter That Leaked—From Personal Security to Systems Security
Sanctum: Firewalls for browsers
“You idiot!”
Imperva: A firewall for websites
The man who walked away
The love letter that leaked: CyberArk and the digital wallet
Cyber: A booming market
Chapter 7 From Security to Defense—The Cyber “Iron Dome”
The turning point of 2010
Paradigm shift
From inertia to growth
Chapter 8 The Best Defense—“Daddy, What Do You Do?”
The birth of an idea
Rise and fall
Chapter 9 From Crisis to Crisis—Israeli Cyber Grows Up
Safe browsing: Island & Co.
The massive switch to networks
Is the bubble about to burst?
Section 3 Offensive Cybersecurity
Chapter 10 Reaching Through the Darkness: NSO and Zero-Click Disruption
The cyberblacklist
The birth of a revolution
The breakthrough
Chapter 11 In the Right Hands—The Israeli Companies That Stretched the Boundaries of Possibility
Candiru: The covert company
Surveillance van hacking: The story of Intellexa
Chapter 12 Criticism of Offensive Cybertechnology
The enemy of offensive cybertechnology
Bad publicity
Between privacy and security
The sales dilemma
Chapter 13 Selling to the Good Guys—Regulation, Self-Criticism, and “Clean” Offensive Cybertechnology
The Israeli regulator
Offensive cyber as a geopolitical tool
Final reflections
Section 4 Building a Cyberstate
Chapter 14 The Israeli Silicon Valley—Small State, Big Data
Chapter 15 Unit 8200—Secrets of the IDF’s Success
“We’ve got to go up a notch”
The story of Unit 8200
Unit 81: Making the impossible, possible
Cyberintelligence: Challenges and opportunities
Building the Israeli military’s cybersecurity apparatus
The ARAM Course
From offense to defense
The key to success
Overcoming any obstacle
The old boys’ club
Closed club?
Chapter 16 A Professor and a Hacker—Academia and Cybersecurity
Chapter 17 Free Hand or Bear Hug—The State’s Role in the World of Innovation
The Yozma Program: Government-funded venture capital
The innovation and bureaucracy authority
Capital of the Negev, capital of cybersecurity
Just keep out of the way
The prime minister’s agenda
Chapter 18 Small and Nimble—Being a Small Island-Nation in the Middle East Is Not Such a Bad Start
Hackathons lead to global thinking
The “American Dream”
Backs against the wall
Two degrees of separation
Chapter 19 “Bro”—What Makes Israel’s Culture an Incubator of Cybersecurity Innovation?
The “Jewish genius”
The culture of mutual assistance
The pioneers
Our ambassadors abroad
Chapter 20 The Cybersecurity Industry Snowball Effect—Elements of the Israeli Ecosystem
Made in Israel venture capital
Venture capital discovers the cyberindustry
Venture capital and offensive cyber
The entrepreneur community’s fund
The well-trodden path
Angel capital
International corporations
From start-up nation to exit nation
Importing knowledge
Living the good life?
When Israel gains kudos
“Israel is one of our advantages”
Cybertourism
The cyberstate: The secret sauce
Conclusion: Where Is Everything Going?
Notes
The Ten Commandments of the Budding Entrepreneur
Index
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