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Selling services for democracies that will use it for counter terrorism? There are legitimate use for offensive cyber security

> A 2018 study cited by Haaretz estimated that 80% of the 2,300 people who founded Israel’s 700 cybersecurity companies had come through IDF intelligence.

The specific quote is that 8200 grads have founded a large number of cyber security companies in general, and the article follows by discussing specific offensive and surveillance ones (NSO, etc.). My read of the article is that it implies that most of the 700 companies are similar. The link for the study links to a paywalled article about the survey.

Since defensive cyber security is a bigger market, I'd like to know if 8200 grads found offensive companies at a significantly higher rate than defensive ones.

I follow the field, and I'd say defensive companies (anti malware, intrusion detection, monitoring, anti fraud etc.) outnumber offensive companies 100-to-1.

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