Security Compromise Quotes

I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets' lives at risk.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully.

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

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

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.

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

The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

We cannot afford no security, but we also cannot afford total security.

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.