6 Reasons Israel Became A Cybersecurity Powerhouse Leading The $82 Billion Industry How Israel has become a cybersecurity powerhouse at the center of an $82 billion industry.

How Israel has become a cybersecurity powerhouse at the center of an $82 billion industry. 6 Reasons Israel Became A Cybersecurity Powerhouse Leading The $82 Billion Industry Troops serving in IDF cyber units experience real-life and leading-edge cybersecurity challenges and solutions. But as these units work like startups, they also get to experience teamwork, leading other people, having responsibility for making significant decisions, and surviving failure, all a great preparation for entrepreneurial life. To keep them—at least for a while—from starting their own ventures, the IDF entices them to extend their service by funding their PhD studies or providing other incentives such as challenges they will not find in civilian life.