This will be a hard pill to swallow for the National Security community, but they have an image problem among the most talented and creative hackers due to their handling of the Julian Assange and Edward Snowden affairs/scandals.

The most talented and creative hackers are eccentric idealists. They do not hack for the money, they hack for higher ideals and ideas/utopias.

If the National Security community wants to gain access to this pool of genius talent, they need to resolve the Assange and Snowden cases fairly, i.e. potential pardons or short prison sentences (5 to 10 years), and change their behavior and image from an authoritarian, corporately controlled/involved, military-industrial complex image, to an authentic image of a truly freedom and fairness loving and defending entity and organization.

Even a cyber army of thousands of mediocre hackers and billion Dollar budgets cannot do what one creative genius-hacker can accomplish. Quality truly trumps quantity here.

A culture and consciousness change within the National Security community is the only way to prepare it for this cyber future in my humble opinion, and therefore the only way to secure a safe and secular future for Western Civilization.