Tim Cook Quotes

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.

I'm just not security-minded.

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.

There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.

Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public demand for an Internet that isn't crawling with bugs.

After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely new type of security strategy and technology was needed.

If a serious and sophisticated attacker has enough time he or she will get into a digital network. Governments and private corporations need to be able to detect an attacker on their network quickly, quarantine him completely and then kick him off.

I'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. 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.

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

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

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

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.

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

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.