James Comey Quotes

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.

I would argue that in the cyber arena, the need for private sector partnership is higher than really anywhere else of any program we have. So, the reality is we couldn't do what we do without the private sector, and vice versa.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.

We have a cadre of home-grown cyber-skilled professionals to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, in the public and private sectors and in defence.

In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private sector.

All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it's a fast moving world; it's a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.

The first time cyber was even a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference, which is - I mean, we've got hundreds of specialists there - was 2011. That's how long it took.

Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

With digital attacks becoming rampant, the computer nerds who work for the good guys to thwart such incursions have become the new Navy SEALs - elite commandos who can carry out sophisticated operations on the battlefield of cyberspace.

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.

Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.

Cyber attacks are not going away.

Every single company knows that there is more that they can do to keep themselves safe from cyber-crime.

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

Cyber criminals often operate through online forums, selling illicit goods and services, including tools that lower the barrier to entry for aspiring criminals and that can be used to facilitate malicious cyber activity.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

Our folks at the FBI and at DOJ are working their tails off every day to protect our nation's companies, our universities, our computer networks, and our ideas and innovation.

Our adversaries - terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and criminals - take advantage of modern technology to hide their communications; recruit followers; and plan, conduct, and encourage espionage, cyber attacks, or terrorism to disperse information on different methods to attack the U.S. homeland and to facilitate other illegal activities.

What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.