On the flip side, cybersecurity challenges present an opportunity for a company to find solutions and to profit by distinguishing itself among its competitors.
Obama had some progress with President Xi in terms of pushing particularly on the commercial theft side of cybersecurity.
In addition to learning the technical side of cybersecurity, students need to become well-versed in the legal issues related to government monitoring of private critical infrastructure assets, Shenoi says, so that students understand, for example, what forms of monitoring are constitutional.
"There definitely is a side of the cybersecurity market that's driven by threats," Pescatore says.
The response package also seeks to address this other side of the cybersecurity coin with a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII) that provides technical indicators that network defenders can use to identify and defend against future nation-state intrusions.
In the emerging fields of cybersecurity and unmanned aircraft, combining both sides' businesses will build beefier contenders.
To the uninitiated, it all sounds rather alarming, but cyberhacking and cybersecurity – fighting the hackers – are two sides of the same coin, utilising the same expertise in programming and code-breaking.
Even on cybersecurity, where they have disagreement, the two sides have managed to establish a hotline and agreed on the guidelines to jointly fighting against cybercrimes.
The game allows you to think like a hacker, and serves as a good education tool on cybersecurity — that's why they play as both sides".
But Congress failed to pass a cybersecurity bill this summer after Republicans opposed the bill, siding with business lobbyists who claimed that any security standards would unfairly saddle businesses with costly regulations.
