Discover the extraordinary realities of the worlds most advanced cybersecurity companies and tech
InThe Battle for Your Computer: Israel and the Growth of the Global Cyber-Security Industry, Israeli Defense Force (IDF) cyberwarfare veteran and tech product leader Alon Arvatz examines the why and the how of the extraordinarily strong connection between Israels elite cyber military unit and that countrys booming offensive and defensive cybersecurity industry. In the book, youll explore the central role played by Israel in the global fight for cybersecurity supremacy.
Featuring interviews with some of the worlds leading cybersecurity professionals and leaders,The Battle for Your Computer explains how the IDFs Unit 8200 became the globes most fruitful incubator of cyber technologies. Youll also find:Explanations of how the technologies that protect your own computers at home and at work probably began their lives in IDF personnel or equipmentThe stories of the men and women working to protect Israel and how they pivoted to protecting her technology against attackAnswers to fascinating questions like: How does an offensive cyber company decide to whom to sell its tech?
An endlessly engrossing take on an equally engrossing subject,The Battle for Your Computeris a must-read for laypeople and cyber experts alike.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1: What is Cybersecurity?
Chapter 1: The New GoldCybersecurity 101
Chapter 2: The Keyboard WarHow Global Militaries Exploited the New Domain
Chapter 3: Hello, Its Me, a Nigerian PrinceNew Crime
Chapter 4: The New MoneyCatalysts of Cybercrime
Section 2: Cybernation
Chapter 5: The PioneerThe Story of Checkpoint
Chapter 6: The Love Letter That LeakedFrom Personal Security to Systems Security
Chapter 7: From Security to DefenseThe Cyber Iron Dome
Chapter 8: The Best CyberdefenseDaddy, What Do You Do?
Chapter 9: From Crisis to CrisisIsraeli Cyber Grows Up
Section 3: Offensive Cybersecurity
Chapter 10: Reaching Through the Darkness: NSO and Zero-Click Disruption
Chapter 11: In the Right Handsthe Israeli Companies that Stretched the Boundaries of Possibility
Chapter 12: Criticism of Offensive Cybertechnology
Chapter 13: Selling to the Good Guys Regulation, Self-Criticism, and Clean Offensive Cybertechnology
Section 4: Building a Cyberstate
Chapter 13: The Israeli Silicon ValleySmall State, Big Data
Chapter 14: Unit 8200Secrets of the IDFs Success
Chapter 15: A Professor and a HackerAcademia and Cybersecurity
Chapter 16: Free Hand or Bear HugThe States Role in the World of Innovation
Chapter 17: Small and NimbleBeing a Small Island-Nation in the Middle East is Not Such a Bad Start
Chapter 18: BroWhat Makes Israels Culture an Incubator of Cybersecurity Innovation?
Chapter 19: The Cybersecurity Industry Snowball EffectElements of the Israeli Ecosystem
Conclusion: Where Is Everything Going?
The Ten Commandments of the Budding Entrepreneur
Acknowledgments
Index
