Quotes About Cybersecurity

The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.

Give a man a zero day he will hack for a day, Teach a man how to find a zero day, he will hack for lifetime.

Pentesting is not a technique, it's a skill. A technique is obtained through knowledge, A skill is obtained through practice.

Regardless, in this world, this world where everything was linked, where data ruled all, where cryptographic codes had replaced physical locks on the world's wealth, on its infrastructure, on its weapons… In this world a being able to process information more rapidly than humans was the ultimate threat.

With security, in the early days, we would just have firewalls and you'd check who could come into the network and who could not.

Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!

As the writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: "For those who say, 'why complain– just block?'—on a big troll day, it can be 50 violent/rape messages an hour.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

A dozen years ago, the size of the cybersecurity market was just $3.5 billion. Research reports valued the global cybersecurity market at $64 billion in 2011 and $78 billion in 2015; they project it to be at $120 billion by 2017. ...I expect the total market size of the cybersecurity to increase even faster, reaching $175 billion by the end of 2017.

A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure - financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries - that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.

The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.

Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.

Technology companies have a front-line responsibility to secure their own networks, products, and platforms.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us.

To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.

When I look at the web, it's clear that the web is a fantastic instrument for all of us. It's clear that we have the dark web and the deep web and all the problems of cybersecurity, etc. And the question of regulation is a very complex question in relation to this.

If you're a cyber-criminal, the days of stealing data and then selling it for cash in the dark web - they're not so profitable as they used to be.

Often when websites start running slowly, it's because they're under some form of attack.

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.