John W. Thompson Quotes

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

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

Our view is that if the network is involved, then we are there to protect it. Based on that, future developments will revolve around ensuring data, networks and applications are protected.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

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.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.

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

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

Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.

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

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.

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.

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

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.

Security today is important, but 90 percent of security involves other co functions of government.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.

I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.

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.

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.

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