Ron Lewis Quotes

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

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

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

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.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Nothing is absolute in security.

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.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

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.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want.

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.

Efforts to constrain encryption through forms of extraordinary access will inevitably introduce vulnerabilities into the security of consumer products in ways that are likely to have adverse long-term effects on the security, privacy, and civil liberties of citizens.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.