Alex Stamos Quotes

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

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

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.

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.

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

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

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

We're going to become the number one security company.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

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.

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

Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.

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.

For most companies, they don't want to ever talk about security unless it's an absolute emergency and they've had a breach. And I think that's a mistake.

At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after, and what their tradecraft is. We also disseminate that information to enable collective action.

The threat landscape continues to expand, while cyber threats are continually becoming more sophisticated. This has convinced organizations to expand their security policies and deploy more security solutions.

Every single company knows that there is more that they can do to keep themselves safe from cyber-crime.

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

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

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.

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.

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.