We already have cyber security mercenary groups. They go by the names of "Accenture" or "IBM" or "McKinsey"... but they prefer to be called "Consulting companies"... "Mercenary groups" is so... tacky.

Good contractors/consultants care and are more likely to be successful in their career... Good employees care and are more likely to be successful in their career.

You can find them both in the same proportion because caring about what you do is not generally determined by whether you are one or the other.

This is the trick: you don't need to do what you love, instead love what you do.

It is easy to look around you and think that nobody knows what they do and that everybody else's position (except yours, of course) is worthless. Instead, the road to success in IT goes through finding how to do better your and everybody's job, finding the value on your position, testing the limits of your area of influence and continue to renovate yourself.

Now they'll have two groups: One mostly populated by FBI, CIA and NSA undercover agents, and the other by overweight male perverts.