Wietse Venema Quotes

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.

We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

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

We have to make sure that there is a legitimate security need. We don’t just do anything because we can.

Security today is important, but 90 percent of security involves other co functions of government.

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.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.

We're going to become the number one security company.

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

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.

Security is a human problem.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn't doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

Well, what every place needs is a security plan that protects it.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.

Let's try to secure everything.

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.

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

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