Donald Trump Quotes

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

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

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

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.

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

It is a cause of grave concern that the cyber world is being exploited by terror groups such as DAESH or ISIS to radicalise the gullible youth of our country.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea. What I wanted to do is I wanted to get our brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS cannot do what they're doing.

A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in America and Europe and elsewhere.

Cyber attacks are not going away.

We ask how did ISIS members become radicalized? How did the shooters in El Paso or Orlando or Las Vegas become radicalized? Well, the answer very often is the Internet. The digital land of make-believe. The same pipeline that helps my children learn, helps you connect with your loved ones also poisons some adults and distorts their reality.

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.

We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It's not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.

Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well.

I don't want anyone hacking us. And I'm not only talking about countries. I'm talking about anyone, period.

The two most capable nation state adversaries in the cyber domain are clearly Russia and, of course, China. And I do think Russia poses a huge threat in the way they have used the cyber domain. That, to me, by the way, is the big issue here, is Russian interference in our political process, in our election process. And that is an egregious act by them. And they will continue to do that and I think more aggressively than they have in the past. And I think it's something Americans, all American citizens need to be aware of.

I will then ask for a plan to immediately protect those vulnerabilities and then fix them.At the same time, we will invest heavily in offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt our enemies, including terrorists who rely heavily on internet communications.