The Business of Hacking: Creating, Developing, and Maintaining an Effective Penetration Testing Team

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M. Butler, J. G. OakleyThe Business of Hackinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0174-7_14

14. Cyber Arms Dealing

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Having covered more traditional cybersecurity service and product paradigms in other chapters, we must also address the concept of cyber arms dealing, the business of selling hacking tools and services to governments, militaries, and criminal organizations for profit. We will define cyber arms therefore as cybersecurity solutions developed and sold in such a way that they are to be utilized in the carrying out of intelligence gathering and warfighting. ...