In The 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 Israel’s elite cyber military unit and that country’s booming offensive and defensive cybersecurity industry. In the book, you’ll explore the central role played by Israel in the global fight for cybersecurity supremacy.
Featuring interviews with some of the world’s leading cybersecurity professionals and leaders, The Battle for Your Computer explains how the IDF’s “Unit 8200” became the globe’s most fruitful incubator of cyber technologies. You’ll 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 equipment - The stories of the men and women working to protect Israel and how they pivoted to protecting her technology against attack - Answers 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 Computer is a must-read for laypeople and cyber experts alike.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Section 1: What is Cybersecurity?
Chapter 1: The New Gold - Cybersecurity 101
Chapter 2: The Keyboard War - How Global Militaries Exploited the New Domain
Chapter 3: “Hello, It’s Me, a Nigerian Prince” - New Crime
Chapter 4: The New Money - Catalysts of Cybercrime
Section 2: Cybernation
Chapter 5: The Pioneer - The Story of Checkpoint
Chapter 6: The Love Letter That Leaked - From Personal Security to Systems Security
Chapter 7: From Security to Defense - The Cyber “Iron Dome”
Chapter 8: The Best Cyberdefense - “Daddy, What Do You Do?”
Chapter 9: From Crisis to Crisis - Israeli Cyber Grows Up
Section 3: Offensive Cybersecurity
Chapter 10: Reaching Through the Darkness: NSO and Zero-Click Disruption
Chapter 11: In the Right Hands - the 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 Valley - Small State, Big Data
Chapter 14: Unit 8200 - Secrets of the IDF’s Success
Chapter 15: A Professor and a Hacker - Academia and Cybersecurity
Chapter 16: Free Hand or Bear Hug - The State’s Role in the World of Innovation
Chapter 17: Small and Nimble - Being a Small Island-Nation in the Middle East is Not Such a Bad Start
Chapter 18: “Bro” - What Makes Israel’s Culture an Incubator of Cybersecurity Innovation?
Chapter 19: The Cybersecurity Industry Snowball Effect - Elements of the Israeli Ecosystem
Conclusion: Where Is Everything Going?
The Ten Commandments of the Budding Entrepreneur
Acknowledgments
Index
