Steven Sinofsky Quotes

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.

Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

5G trials will accelerate in 2018, and in 2019, we can expect to see meaningful deployment in the U.S., China, and potentially other markets like Japan.

Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.

We have a highly competitive set of products and services ideally suited to the world of 5G.

Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.

The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.

We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.

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.

We don't know which use cases will ultimately be the most important for 5G, but we know that early adopters tend to get a sustainable advantage.

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

I don't want to be only the most scalable platform, I want to be the most secure. To do that, it's not only Zoom's work, we need lot of people's help.

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.