Jerome Powell Quotes

Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.

American workers have lost jobs and businesses have been damaged because of cyber attacks, and that's why it will continue to be a top priority of mine to put the necessary resources in place to help our nation prepare for and combat future cyber attacks.

We need to be held to a higher standard because digital currency is so new and interesting and powerful that it is attractive to a lot of people out there to try to steal it.

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

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

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.

I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

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

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

CISPA permits, but does not require, entities that have been attacked to voluntarily share their knowledge of a cyber threat with each other and with government.

Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.

The sooner we act, the sooner we can start turning the tables on cyberattackers.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it's a fast moving world; it's a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.

The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took.

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.

Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

We have a cadre of home-grown cyber-skilled professionals to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, in the public and private sectors and in defence.

There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.