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"What Iran is trying to do here now is really focus on our critical infrastructure... everybody is on high, high alert right now... we have been upping cybersecurity over the past several years. Enterprise has really been focusing on that." The shift in nation-state cyber tactics from quiet data theft to destructive operational outages forces companies to treat cybersecurity as a non-negotiable, mission-critical expense. As enterprises and infrastructure operators scramble to secure legacy systems and prevent lateral network movement, top-tier cybersecurity vendors providing endpoint protection, zero-trust architecture, and network firewalls will capture massive, accelerated contract growth. LONG. Geopolitical cyber warfare acts as a permanent structural tailwind, insulating cybersecurity budgets from broader macroeconomic tightening. Cybersecurity budgets may already be heavily saturated; a high-profile breach at one of the security vendors themselves could severely damage their stock and reputation.