Lennart Meri Quotes

I'm just not security-minded.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is absolute in security.

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

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

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.

Our main concern will always be security.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

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

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.