This compares to another 2012 Deloitte study that found 47% of organizations in the financial services industry had more than 100 full-time cyber security employees.
This month's more significant news, he argues, was the announcement that the U.S. military's Cyber Command (founded in 2009) would for the first time develop and field 13 offensive cyber-warfare teams.
According to the study, half of the respondents said they had five or fewer cyber security professionals on their teams, while 38 percent reported six to 15 full-time employees.
Last month the government announced an initiative to share information on cyber-threats between businesses and governments, including a secure web portal to allow information to be shared in real time.
At the same time, Hudson is stepping up investments in high-end services for the intelligence community such as cyber security, having recently hired intelligence insider Larry Prior away from ManTech International to be one of her two executive vice presidents.