Alex Stamos Quotes

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

Let's try to secure everything.

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

Our main concern will always be security.

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.

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

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm just not security-minded.

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.

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

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

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

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

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

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

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.

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

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Nothing is absolute in security.