Up until the war though - of even through it - things would presumably be more interested in the software side of development. After all, no physical assets are put in danger in your attack on someone's server. Get one guy with illegal access to a bunch of computer, DDOS someone's server, and make off with trade secrets before they can respond or shut down the servers and cut you off.

The war could feasibly open up hack opportunities in the sort of cyber warfare pundits like to scream about. Move in like the US-Isreali attacks on Iranian nuclear power plants and over load the centrifuges and surgically destroy shutdown a nuclear power plant. No physical assets or lives are put at risk, and for a government they can use the black-out you created to make a move. Physical attacks may make a comeback in the later part of the war if you want to smash international communication by punching them right in the balls in a sort of Deus Ex scenario, but hacking'll be a powerful front still and a tech company like them could make enough to be stable on pure IT management and security.

How they make the jump from software to hardware is another thing.