Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes

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.

Cybersecurity is a new issue for the international community at large. First of all, the technologies are new and the attacks are invisible. Traditionally, if you perceived a threat, it could be seen. It was physical. But not in cyberspace.

Establishing robust cyberdefenses no more militarizes cyberspace than having a navy militarizes the ocean.

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

The United States cannot wait for the cyber equivalent of the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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.

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

We are vulnerable in the military and in our governments, but I think we're most vulnerable to cyber attacks commercially. This challenge is going to significantly increase. It's not going to go away.

Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.

If nothing else, the cyber attacks that occurred during the 2016 presidential election have laid bare the very real vulnerabilities that exist across our government and the private sector. Imagine the harm that could be done if our enemies ever hack into the Department of Defense or Homeland Security.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.

The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.

The sooner we act, the sooner we can start turning the tables on cyberattackers.

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.

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.

My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency - or even the government itself. But the FBI brings a rare combination of scope and scale, experience, and tools to the mix. We investigate criminal activity like intrusions and cyber attacks, but we also investigate national security threats like foreign influence.

The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.

Cyber attacks are not going away.

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