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>maybe spend less time fleshing out offensive capabilities and more time on defense of your citizens

With our budget the two are not mutually exclusive

And they’re often the same. Take cyber “offensive” capabilities for example. Why do those exist? To provide intelligence for defense.

Not really? Cyber threat intelligence is an incredibly overblown industry, remarkably similar to the xkcd about crypto. Offensive capabilities are for Natanz.

Everyone seems to think they need super ninja threat intel to protect them from elite nation state hackers, meanwhile they’re being randomware’d with metasploit modules from 8 months ago.

Run A/V and patch, that’ll be $1.7million, thanks.

Nothing in my comment has anything to do with “cyber threat intelligence”. Did you reply to the wrong comment?

> To provide intelligence for defense.

Did you forget what you wrote?

I didn’t forget what I wrote, I just exist in the real world where missiles are a bigger threat than hackers.

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