Craig Federighi Quotes

As cyber threats evolve, we need to evolve as well.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?

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

There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute to the protection and defense of the Internet.

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing is absolute in security.

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.

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

Technology companies have a front-line responsibility to secure their own networks, products, and platforms.