Miguel de Icaza Quotes

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.

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.

Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.

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.

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.

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

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

Let's try to secure everything.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

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.

Nothing is absolute in security.

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.

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

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.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

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

Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.

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.

We value integrity of information, we value processes, cyber- security. These are things important to the government.

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.

With security, in the early days, we would just have firewalls and you'd check who could come into the network and who could not.

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