Keith Barry Quotes

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

I'm just not security-minded.

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.

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.

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

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

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door.

'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.

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.

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

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.

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

When a hacker gains access to any corporate data, the value of that data depends on which server, or sometimes a single person's computer, that the hacker gains access to.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

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.

Let's try to secure everything.

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.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

If a serious and sophisticated attacker has enough time he or she will get into a digital network. Governments and private corporations need to be able to detect an attacker on their network quickly, quarantine him completely and then kick him off.

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.

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

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.