John W. Thompson Quotes

The reality is that there are simply not enough skilled humans available to properly plan, manage, integrate, and optimize security devices, strategies, and protocols.

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

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're going to become the number one security company.

FusionX's elite team of cyber security experts works at the C-Suite level to help clients test security and see their vulnerabilities through actual replica attacks. This acquisition brings to Accenture the critical ability to help our clients assess and respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

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.

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Ninety percent of cyber security companies begin in the detection stage. The issue is there are so many applications and alarming messages it is difficult for the user or the administrator to manage.

The threat landscape continues to expand, while cyber threats are continually becoming more sophisticated. This has convinced organizations to expand their security policies and deploy more security solutions.

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

The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

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.

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.