Nick Szabo Quotes

Our main concern will always be security.

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.

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 is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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

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

I'm just not security-minded.

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

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

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

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, 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.

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

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

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

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.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

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

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely new type of security strategy and technology was needed.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

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