I founded IT-Harvest in 2006 to cover the cybsersecurity industry. Writing and publishing is a critical part of being an independent analyst, so that was the first thing I concentrated on, first for my blog, ThreatChaos, which I had started while at Webroot, then ZDNET, where they paid a penny per page view. Finally, Andy Greenberg at Forbes reached out and asked me to become a contributor. Soon I was writing books. My first was Surviving Cyberwar published by a textbook imprint of Rowman&Littlefield in 2010. Thinking that I should have some academic grounding if I was going to write about warfare I enrolled in the Masters programme in War in the Modern World at King’s College, London. That led to my second book on cyberwar, There Will Be Cyberwar.