Israel's Cyber Sector Blooms in the Desert

(AFP-Security Week) Two ultra-modern complexes in Beersheba, a city of 200,000 in the Negev desert of southern Israel, house a dozen Israeli companies, start-ups, venture capital funds and foreign groups such as Lockheed Martin, Deutsche Telekom, Oracle and IBM. Already, 1,500 technicians, engineers and researchers work at its CyberSpark industrial park. Many have been trained at the local Ben-Gurion University. Two more complexes comprising 27 buildings are to be added, and the municipality expects the population to grow by 100,000 in the next 10 years.


2016-02-04 00:00:00

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