Kevin Mitnick Quotes

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.

The reality is that there are simply not enough skilled humans available to properly plan, manage, integrate, and optimize security devices, strategies, and protocols.

FusionX's elite team of cyber security experts works at the C-Suite level to help clients test security and see their vulnerabilities through actual replica attacks. This acquisition brings to Accenture the critical ability to help our clients assess and respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks.

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

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

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.

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

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'm just not security-minded.

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

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

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.

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

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

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

Let's try to secure everything.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.