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The battle for your computer : Israel and the growth of the global cyber-security industry / Alon Arvatz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arvatz, Alon, 1988- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Haganah ha-ṭovah be-yoter. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer security equipment industry--Israel.
- Computer security equipment industry.
- Cyberinfrastructure--Security measures--Israel.
- Cyberinfrastructure.
- Computer security--Economic aspects.
- Computer security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]
- Summary:
- "Tells the story of the global cyber industry that is protecting the computer you are probably using to read this sentence, with a special look at Israel's central role. For example, fully 40% of the world's VC money allocated to cyber is spent in Israel. The book explains why and how there is a strong and peculiar connection between the development of Israel's army defense technology, and Israel's booming cybersecurity and cyber intelligence industry, and how this eventually becomes frontline hacker protection for your computer, (through industry leading companies like Palo Alto Networks and Checkpoint --both founded by Israeli veterans). If you are a cybersecurity professional who wants to understand the world of cyber risks, attackers, and opportunities, or a citizen of the world who wants to have a better understanding of the 21st century battle for computers, phones, the internet of things, AI, and autonomous cars, and who is defending them, this book is for you"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781394174164
- 1394174160
- OCLC:
- 1398011519
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