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Pictured Above, Dr. David G. DeWalt’s Threat Evolution from the ‘90’s up to 2018

Dr. David G. DeWalt calls these “super cyber cycles” whereby these threat cycles drive
vendor spending and investments, when he talks about biggest gaps, it’s the offense or
the threat vs commercial defense.

Wherever you see the biggest gap, it opens up to the biggest opportunities; Case in
point: Fireeye. Along came the super threat cyber cycle in which advanced persistent
threats (APTs) – multi-stage, attack vector, we’d never seen before and the antivirus (AV)
vendors did not know how to stop ‘all the objects.’ “We took the risk at Fireeye and solved
this challenge – we could tear apart APTs and understand their multi-object layering and
multi-stages of behavior. I knew this would be a short, 3 year window – a big gap and a
big opportunity – I see similar threat cycles coming our way and I call these Cyber ‘Super
Cycles’,” said Dr. David G. DeWalt.

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