John McAfee Quotes

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

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.

Nothing is absolute in security.

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

Security is job number one for Intel and our industry.

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

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.

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.

I'm just not security-minded.

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.

Perfect security means nobody’s there at all.

Security incidents have gone up 5-10 times during the pandemic, so there is an increased need for security operations risk management, identity and access management, data privacy and compliance.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

Let's try to secure everything.

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