John W. Thompson Quotes

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.

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.

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.

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.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

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

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.

When you put new security measures in place there is a greater time lag than before.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.

Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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

Device makers, especially consumer-focused ones, have been the Achilles' heel of IoT security. These vendors have often viewed proper security implementations as extra cost, complexity, and time-to-market burdens with an unclear payoff.

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