Chris Christie Quotes

In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is - it is a huge problem.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

Cybersecurity is a new issue for the international community at large. First of all, the technologies are new and the attacks are invisible. Traditionally, if you perceived a threat, it could be seen. It was physical. But not in cyberspace.

Cyberattacks diminish rather than accentuate political violence by making it easier for states, groups, and individuals to engage in two kinds of aggression that do not arise to the level of war: sabotage and espionage. Weaponized computer code and computer-based sabotage operations make it possible to carry out highly targeted attacks on adversary’s technical systems without directly and physically harming human operators and managers.

The next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyberattack.

Establishing robust cyberdefenses no more militarizes cyberspace than having a navy militarizes the ocean.

As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.

Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.

In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

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.

I'd have to do a lot of things to fight Cyborg.

The two most capable nation state adversaries in the cyber domain are clearly Russia and, of course, China. And I do think Russia poses a huge threat in the way they have used the cyber domain. That, to me, by the way, is the big issue here, is Russian interference in our political process, in our election process. And that is an egregious act by them. And they will continue to do that and I think more aggressively than they have in the past. And I think it's something Americans, all American citizens need to be aware of.

Bob Mueller for the FBI, myself, met with a particular group of executives that have major roles in the so-called ISPs, the Internet service providers, what they could possibly do. We have met with leaders in private industry in terms of the core critical infrastructure of the country as to what they can possibly do with cyber-attacks.

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.