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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
