Barton Gellman Quotes

During the day, I don't read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

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.

Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.

We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.

Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.

As safe and secure as you believe you are is as vulnerable as you can turn out to be.

We know that the government in China has been involved in cyber attacks before. I look at our partners around the world, our traditional allies, our NATO partners who are making the same assessment. We share so much with them and rely on their technology, their expertise and interoperability in many aspects of our own armed forces.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

As cyber threats evolve, we need to evolve as well.

In addition to my job at American Express, I'm also chairman of the board of Symantec, one of the leading players in anti-virus and cyber-crime prevention software, so I know firsthand just how sophisticated many of these attacks can be.

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

Cybersecurity is one of my main priorities, as well as the government's, and we are committed to making the U.K. the safest place to live and do business online.

We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?

I am continuously amazed by innovations in security and surveillance technology as a member of the House committees on both Homeland Security and Intelligence.

We need to do whatever we can to defend ourselves against hacking.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private sector.

Our adversaries - terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and criminals - take advantage of modern technology to hide their communications; recruit followers; and plan, conduct, and encourage espionage, cyber attacks, or terrorism to disperse information on different methods to attack the U.S. homeland and to facilitate other illegal activities.

Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.