Digital weapons are unique in that they have no "mass" and can be moved anywhere in the world, literally, at the speed of light with a mouse clink; plus they are asymmetric in their impact. This makes them particularly dangerous but also essential (and inevitable) as the global economy, international conflict, crime and terrorism transitions to Cyber Space.
As these weapons find their way into the "wild" - the environment of hackers and other bad actors - the most effective defenses will come from the same engineers that developed these tools and techniques in the name of National Security. In cyber security, the best defenses come from an intimate understanding of the offense...