The company joins other defense giants such as Lockheed, and Raytheon to create their own cybersecurity technology and services. Such companies have been hiring network security staff or buying up smaller security firms to augment their own credentials.

"Everybody smells money here," Stephen Kent, chief scientist at told in a recent article. "The size of the business could be enormous."

Indeed, a recent Market Research Media report showed government cybersecurity spending growing at 6.2% per year to a total of $55 billion over the next six years. Other published estimates put that spending at $11 billion to $13 billion in 2013 alone.