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National Intelligence Estimate on Cyber Espionage Leads to New Breed of Services

The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Cyber Espionage (the first NIE ever to address cybersecurity specifically), which is compiled by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (currently James R. Clapper), concludes that the United States is the target of a “major espionage campaign”, and fingers China as one of the leading offenders. This is providing a marketing opportunity for a new breed of services: organizations that will go out on the offensive for your company, basically hacking the hackers on your behalf, and essentially striking back at those attacking your network with a counter-strike. In fact, one such company calls itself “CrowdStrike”.