Alex Stamos Quotes

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.

I don't want to be only the most scalable platform, I want to be the most secure. To do that, it's not only Zoom's work, we need lot of people's help.

If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

The gatekeepers must change.

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

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

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

Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

Love is great, but not as a password.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.

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.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.