Michael Lynton Quotes

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

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.

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

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

I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

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.

Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

When you have millions of small companies using your site and billions of dollars in transactions every day, the government cares….They care that I can unstabalize the country.

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

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.

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

Valdez was a devastating experience for our corporation. What emerged from that was a commitment to develop a systematic approach to managing risk in advance.

I've always said manage in good times so that you're ready for the bad times.

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.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

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.

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

Let's try to secure everything.