Jon Porter Quotes

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.

My chefs don't apply for 'Top Chef'. They all know that there is no way. At the end of the process I look at the resumes of the last 25 options just to make sure they've never worked for me before.

Privacy and confidentiality have always been among our core values. So the question is how to remain true to them in a changing technological and legal environment

Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.