John W. Thompson Quotes

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

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.

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.

'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.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

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.

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

Nothing is absolute in security.

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

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

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.

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

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

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.

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

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

Deviants from around the world are trying to 'beat' our system every day. We have to proactively identify suspicious behavior and quarantine users until additional verification steps can be taken.

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.

Every single company knows that there is more that they can do to keep themselves safe from cyber-crime.

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

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.