Depending on how much cyber-scrubbing needs to be done, these services can either be free or cost upwards of $1,000 a month.
How much is cyber security on the minds of CIOs these days?
One issue that the report doesn't directly address is just how much access the Cyber Initiative should grant the government to monitor businesses for cyber attacks.
Still, it's hard to parse just how much more in Cyber Monday sales Amazon reeled in this year because the company doesn't disclose that information, noted Brian Yarbrough, an analyst at Edward Jones.
Asked how much companies typically spend on cyber protection, Rogoyski says it differs from company to company depending on their size and vulnerability.
One reason is that there has been little clarity in public debates about the true impact of cyber war: How much damage would it really inflict?
Some worry that the rise of cloud computing could expose more firms to crime, though no one knows how much is actually lost to cyber-attacks: estimates range from $100bn to $3trn.
Understanding the crowd-sourced approach might help unravel one of the most persistent questions about Chinese cyber-attacks: How much is this a government effort or the work of independent hackers?
