According to his Congressional testimony, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence ranks cyber crime as the number one national security threat, ahead of terrorism, espionage, and weapons of mass destruction. Criminal exploitation of a single vulnerability could destabilize governments, crash economies, cripple industrial systems, or disrupt our way of life with nothing but keystrokes.
The Booz Allen security professional is a software engineer who thinks like the bad guys. They deploy the same shadow techniques and tools as the criminals they’re trying to catch and defend against. Knowing how malicious hackers think and operate—and acting faster than they do—is how the security professional prevents attacks before they happen.