Alex Stamos Quotes

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.

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

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.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

Let's try to secure everything.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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

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

Our main concern will always be security.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

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

Nothing is absolute in security.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

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

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.

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.