Ben Horowitz Quotes

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.

As our digitally connected world continues to expand, the inherent vulnerabilities in the systems we rely on provide ever greater opportunities for those who want to exploit them.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.

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