Cyber Risk Quotes

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Anybody who has ever traveled in other countries, some of which shall remain nameless, except for Russia and China, you know that you can't bring your phones and your computers. And if you do, good luck.

I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.

You can't trust the internet.

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

We are increasingly dependent on these electronic infrastructures. As technology advances we are more vulnerable.

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

As cyber threats evolve, we need to evolve as well.

As our use of technologies grows exponentially, so do our country's vulnerabilities. Our national security depends on the stability and reliability of our communications infrastructure. The cyber threat to IT and national security systems has never been greater.

On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large.

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!