Cyber security is a major growth industry, and warnings from Clarke, McConnell, and others have helped to create what has become a military-cyber complex.
Senator Ron Wyden, who joined Issa on stage, warned the audience of a "cyber industrial complex," which can restrict the universe of knowledge around capitol hill and pass bills that are potentially harmful to a free Internet.
He says he expects to take on more advisory positions soon.The role of firms such as Booz Allen in the intelligence arena and the flow of government cyber-tsars into tech companies are evidence of an emerging cyber-industrial complex in which the private and public sectors are intimately linked.
Trade is booming for what some have dubbed the "cyber-industrial complex".
"The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they're now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex," Brown said in a statement, according to the Washington Post.
It's a fine thing to see mainstream American media outlets finally sparing some of their attention toward the cyber-industrial complex – that unprecedented conglomeration of state, military and corporate interests that together exercise growing power over the flow of information.
There is also a theoretical risk that former officials might tap their chums in government to give their new employers an unfair advantage in bidding for federal contracts or to influence policy for commercial advantage.But there are also reasons why the cyber-industrial complex should, on balance, be welcomed.
Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins, researchers at George Mason University, argue that "the rhetoric of 'cyber doom'" used by many officials is not supported by clear evidence and may be used to drum up funding for an emerging cyber-industrial complex.
"If you hype it, money is going to get spent on cybersecurity and they're going to put themselves in the path of it," said Marcus Ranum, chief of security at Tenable Security, Inc. "They are the marketing arm of the cyber-industrial complex".
The pixelated oscillations of Martis's resultant filmscape blur the distinctions between life and code through, as the engineer himself describes it, "complexities of esoteric cyber microscopy via complex fractal formula explorations".
Law enforcement sees hackers as valuable assets in fighting today's sophisticated cyber-criminals; companies see hackers as the front-line against complex cyber threats; and nation states see hackers both as a valuable resource and as a marketplace when it comes to building, and defending against, advanced cyber weapons.
