Spooks-as-a-Service Swarm RSA Conference 38
itwbennett writes "As the list of victims of sophisticated cyber attacks expands, so does the need for specialized, high-priced, and hard-to-find talent to help investigate and recover from those attacks. The latest solution: hosted services offering access to cyber intelligence and incident response. 'At the RSA Security Conference this week, companies large and small are trumpeting the spy agency connections of senior staff as never before,' writes Paul Roberts. 'These new offerings — think of them as spooks-as-a-service — typically combine some degree of network and endpoint monitoring with a cloud-based management platform to gather and analyze data against data aggregated from other customers and third-party threat intelligence.'"
Cyber-war Profiteering (Score:4, Funny)
That's what it sounds like: Playing both sides.
Live long and prosper (Score:5, Funny)
I read that as "Spocks-as-a-Service". That'd be a waay cooler market.