Steve Crocker Quotes

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.

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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.

Let's try to secure everything.

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.

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

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

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.

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

I'm just not security-minded.

Nothing is absolute in security.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

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.

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.

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

Our main concern will always be security.

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.

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.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.