Stephen Cambone Quotes

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

To preserve our security in a dangerous century, vigilance is not enough. National Intelligence must do more.

Intelligence without counter-intelligence is useless.

We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.

To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

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

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to school on the documents released by Edward Snowden and have changed their communications practices.

FISA is one of the most important investigative tools we've got in preventing our adversaries from harming our country.

Espionage is largely separate from the mainstream of foreign policy … you nail the spy and you punish him, and you move on.

We should be adult enough to understand that major countries are going to be spying on us.

This town leaks like a sieve. Sometimes I think that the easiest thing on the world would be to be a spy against the United States of America

The public must know about the general outlines of surveillance activities in order to evaluate whether the government is achieving the appropriate balance between privacy and security.

The intelligence community is built, resourced, designed, trained, and focused around secrecy. We try to obtain the secrets of our adversaries and we try and keep secret how we are doing so.

As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.

Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.