Israel has 174 cybersecurity startups according to CyberMap, an interactive map listing cybersecurity companies by category. The bulk are based in Tel-Aviv and include Check Point Software, Dell EMC Cyber Solutions Group, Cyberbit and Israel Aerospace Industries. Israel has 42 companies ranked among the 2018 Cybersecurity 500 list. “Ensuring that its people remain able to take on threats and at all levels has become center to Israeli governmental strategy and transformed what began as a cottage industry into a thriving sector of the nation’s economy.” “A regional power devoted to ensuring its own survival, Israel has burgeoned into a high tech epicenter built around Internet security, anti-virus software, and other cyber defense technologies,” Fortune noted. And in 2018, Port Covington was rebranded “CyberTown, USA,” a hub for cybersecurity and data science in a 235-acre waterfront redevelopment project due to open in late 2020. It’s a facility to train cybersecurity professionals using threat simulations. Also in 2017, the Baltimore Cyber Range opened downtown. The center focuses on “adapting technology and international property from Israel for use by ELTA’s commercial customers in the United States” with an emphasis on cybersecurity, The Baltimore Sun reported. (Hanover). In 2017, Israeli-owned ELTA North America, a defense manufacturer, opened a Cyber Innovation Center in Annapolis. Of the 2018 Cybersecurity 500 list, 15 companies are based in Maryland, including Lockheed Martin (Bethesda), IronNet Cybersecurity (Fulton), Terbium Labs (Baltimore) and Dragos, Inc. The state has more than 40 government agencies with strong cybersecurity programs, including the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center north of Baltimore. Fort Meade, which lies roughly equidistant between Baltimore and Annapolis, is headquarters to the National Security Agency (NSA). Maryland claims to have the world’s largest government-trained cyber workforce, with approximately 110,000 cyber-related engineering and data science jobs, as reported in U.S. ![]() metro area boasts 49 companies on the Cybersecurity 500 index for 2018, including Siemens Government Technologies, LookingGlass and ThreatConnect (all in Arlington, Virginia), and VeriSign and ThreatQuotient (Reston, Virginia). because of the proximity to Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” of more than 70 data centers. Top tech firms also have a presence in D.C. among the 10 economies in which tech is a critical component.)Īccess to policymakers is “important as tech becomes a societal issue, requiring more understanding from leadership to create laws that keep up with the rate of change in technology,” according to CIO Dive. (The company changed its ranking system in 2018, ranking D.C. third on its list of the top 25 tech cities. “A dominating hub for life sciences and government, Washington, D.C., also serves as a significant outpost for tech companies seeking proximity to policymakers as well as for burgeoning cybersecurity investment,” according to real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield’s Tech Cities 1.0 report (2017), which ranked D.C. NYC has 30 companies with world or local headquarters in the Cybersecurity 500 index, including Booz Allen, Deloitte, Accenture and CA Technologies.Īs with neighboring Maryland, the nation’s capital and surrounding suburbs have emerged as a cybersecurity hub. Corporations including Goldman Sachs and PwC are advising or assisting with Cyber NYC’s training and hiring. The project is a partnership that includes Israeli venture capital funds, several private-sector companies, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation.Ĭyber NYC is expected to create a Global Cyber Center in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood a SoHo cybersecurity innovation hub and an academic cyber partnership with the likes of Columbia University and NYU, the Times reports. Announced in November 2018, Cyber NYC is “among the nation’s most ambitious cybersecurity initiatives” and is designed to transform the city into a global cybersecurity hub over the next decade, according to The New York Times. "With New York being the financial capital of the world, cybersecurity touches businesses from startups to the Fortune 500, pushing New York to establish first-in-the-nation cybersecurity regulations,” explains Verizon Ventures of NYC’s ambitions.Ĭase in point: Cyber NYC. and often global center of so many worlds - finance, theater, retail and if ambitions pan out, cybersecurity.
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