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$6 Trillion Cybersecurity War – Which Business is on the Frontline?
LONDON – BUSINESS – Cybersecurity is a megatrend that’s got horns just as big as the cryptocurrency bull. They’re both revolutionary elements of the digital era, and they both play a role in what is no less than World War III, unfolding in our cyberspace.
Nothing can hold tech back right now, and precisely because of that, cybersecurity is becoming an even bigger bull. That’s because business is under assault across every industry, everywhere in the world. In focus today in the markets include: Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: Q), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CSCO), FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NYSE: PANW), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC)
What we’re seeing right now is a redistribution of wealth-and one of the biggest the world has ever seen. Why? Because the rise of advanced digital-era technology has led to the rise of an extremely sophisticated form of organized crime that moves off the streets and into the cyberspace.
It’s going to cost us $6 trillion every year by 2021. In other words, it’s bigger than the worldwide trade in major illegal drugs.
This is the next world war, and industries are spending big to fight it because every single cyber breach costs around $4 million on average, and if you look just at the U.S. the cost per breach is upwards of $7 million.
This year has seen major activity on the cyber battlefield, and the last two months alone have seen attacks on Equifax, Deloitte and even the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Even so, these could have been just the test battles. The real war is yet to come, and cyber security companies are on the front line of the profit-making war machine.
Here are 5 stocks suiting up for battle:
#1 INTEL Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC)
This stellar chipmaker has had yet another good quarter, and they’ve also raised guidance for the full year. It’s facing stiff competition from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which just released two new chips, but the INTEL numbers don’t show this has had much negative impact. It has had a positive one, though, with INTEL rising to the occasion and keeping pace with the competitive drive. Next quarter’s outlook shows a sequential increase in operating income and earnings per share.
The company is also doing some cost-cutting and adopting a more reserved acquisition strategy.
All of this has combined to prompt analysts to raise their price targets on Intel shares. BMO Capital Markets has raised its rating for Intel to outperform. They see higher profitability next year and are raising the price target from $37 to $58. As of pre-market on Tuesday, 31 October, Intel was trading at $45.33. We like the fact that shares are trading at a 7% discount to Intel’s industry peers (on a free cash flow multiple basis, according to BMO).
#2 Hill Top Security Inc./Big Wind Capital (BWC; BGGWF).
With an estimated 4,000 cyber-attacks, a day-and counting-the only serious solution to cyberwarfare is military-grade. And Hill Top is emerging as the first military-grade cyber defense solution that even small- and medium-sized business can afford.
This company-run by some of the best cyber minds in the U.S. defense industry, and all hailing from the military establishment is offering three unique services that should strike major confidence in investors because there are some major gaps in cybersecurity that we haven’t been able to close.
The same people behind this company were hired by the intelligence community to build the auditing platform to track hundreds of millions in ‘black money’ that went missing from the U.S. government because it wasn’t directly allocated by Congress. They’ve successfully completed government contracts which center on fraud and abuse and detection of financial anomalies.
Hill Top Security (Is currently merging with Big Wind Capital ) offers a unique, proven platform-and the first in the world-that gives small and medium businesses the ability to protect themselves and their clients in the cyberspace. Now it’s targeting SMBs, which number over 27 million, revenue from the first public sector clients is coming online and is expected to eclipse government revenues at a fast pace.
They one-up the competition in this space not only by opening things up to SMBs, which a single breach could close down but also by not just reacting to cyber-attacks but by preventing them as well. Hill Top’s artificial intelligence (AI) predicts threats for you and alerts you to any suspicious activity. And their platform is secure enough to have gained the trust of the U.S. Defense Department.
Hill Top’s Vauban DNA system was originally developed as a global logistics solution for massive parallel events (think UPS). But then it added an intelligence-gathering element with military-grade security for the U.S. government. Now it’s also the new breed of financial security, with cryptocurrency tech incorporated to support market trading and transactions.
It’s also made Hill Top a takeover target, catching the eye of Big Wind Capital Inc. (BWC; BGGWF). In July, Big Wind announced it would acquire Hill Top, and just last week this deal was concluded for this premier military-grade cyber security company.
