Security Posture Quotes

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

Defence is our best attack.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.