Jef Raskin Quotes

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

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.

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

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.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

'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.

In any technology, one has to be very careful to ensure that it is good and has enough safeguards.

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

We value integrity of information, we value processes, cyber- security. These are things important to the government.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

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.

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.

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

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.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

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.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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