Vint Cerf Quotes

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

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

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

Every time we walk on to the field of battle and the field of battle is the internet, it doesn't matter if we shoot our opponents a hundred times and hit every time. As long as they've hit us once, we've lost, because the U.S. is so much more reliant on those systems.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

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.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

In the 19th century, there were only [the] Army and Navy. In the 20th century, we got airpower as the third dimension of war. In the 21st century, cyber will be the fourth dimension of war. It's another kind of weapon and it is for unlimited range and is very high speed, and, in a very low signature.

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

The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

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.

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars... It's the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

We are at war, if you will, in the cyber domain now, constantly battling countries, such as Russia or China, who are trying to do everything from steal our technology to influence our elections to put out disinformation about the United States.

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.