Get ready to gain new perspectives on what it takes to navigate today’s digital landscape with vigilance and resilience. From the importance of digital privacy and data protection to the evolving tactics of cybercriminals, these expert insights shed light on the challenges, risks, and future of safeguarding personal and corporate security.
- “Cybersecurity is much more than a matter of IT.” ― Stephane Nappo
- “Cybersecurity is not a set of products – it’s a set of practices.” – Ed Amoroso
- “Amateurs hack systems; professionals hack people.” – Bruce Schneier
- “Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.” — John McAfee
“Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company’s internal jargon.” — Kevin Mitnick - “Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.” — Ginni Rometty
- “Computer hackers do not need to know each other’s real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours.” — Robert Mueller
- “As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.” ― Newton Lee
- “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked” ― Richard Clarke
- “It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.” ― Dan Kaminsky
- “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems, and you don’t understand the technology.” ― Bruce Schneier
- “As cybersecurity leaders, we have to create our message of influence because security is a culture, and you need the business to take place and be part of that security culture.” — Britney Hommertzheim
- “There are only two different types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached and don’t know it.” ― Ted Schlein
- “To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.” — Robert Davis.
- “Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.” ― Cory Doctorow
- “Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.” ― Kevin Mitnick
- “Cyber-Security is much more than a matter of IT.” ― Stephane Nappo
- “No technology that’s connected to the internet is unhackable.” — Abhijit Naskar
- “Security is always excessive until it’s not enough.” — Robbie Sinclair
- “Should we fear hackers? The intention is at the heart of this discussion.” — Kevin Mitnick.
- “Privacy — like eating and breathing — is one of life’s basic requirements.” — Katherine Neville
- “There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security; a layered defense is the only viable defense.” — James Scott
- “People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.” — Bruce Schneier
- “Privacy should not be a luxury good.” — Sundar Pichai
- “Security is not a one-time event. It’s an ongoing process.” – John Malloy
- “The only way to maintain privacy on the internet is to not be on the internet.” — Abhijit Naskar
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “We’re all going to have to change how we think about data protection.” — Elizabeth Denham
- “The weakest link in the security chain is the human element.” — Kevin Mitnick
- “The wonderful thing about the Internet is that you’re connected to everyone else. The terrible thing about the Internet is that you’re connected to everyone else.” — Vinton Cerf
- “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” — Edward Snowden
- “A data breach is about both privacy and security. And security becomes very, very important because you can’t have privacy unless you have good security. And if someone tries to say otherwise, they are crazy people!”― Dr. Larry Ponemon.
- “The knock-on effect of a data breach can be devastating for a company. When customers start taking their business—and their money—elsewhere, that can be a real body blow.” ― Christopher Graham.
- “We discovered in our research that insider threats are not viewed as seriously as external threats, like a cyberattack. But when companies had an insider threat, in general, they were much more costly than external incidents. This was largely because the insider that is smart has the skills to hide the crime, for months, for years, sometimes forever.” — Dr. Larry Ponemon
- “In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?” — Al Gore
- “There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they have been hacked.” — John Chambers
- “The internet is about to start killing people, and the government regulates things that kill people.” ― Bruce Schneier
- “Phishing is a major problem because there really is no patch for human stupidity.” ― Mike Danseglio
- “In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitions of the truth.” — Roderick Vincent
- “There’s no silver bullet with cybersecurity; a layered defense is the only viable option.” — James Scott.
- “If you think you know-it-all all about cybersecurity, this discipline was probably ill-explained to you.” ― Stephane Nappo.
- “Hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done.” — Mark Zuckerberg.
- “Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.” — Martina Navratilova.
- “A breach alone is not a disaster, but mishandling it is.” — Serene Davis
- “Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.” — Ryan Holiday
- “If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders”― Dan Farmer
- “The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.” – Heather Brooke
- “It’s not enough to protect your data; you need to protect your customers’ data too.” – Satya Nadella
- “We discovered in our research that insider threats are not viewed as seriously as external threats, like a cyberattack. But when companies had an insider threat, in general, they were much more costly than external incidents. This was largely because the insider that is smart has the skills to hide the crime, for months, for years, sometimes forever.” — Dr. Larry Ponemon
- “I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.” – Patricia Hewitt
- “Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” – Jeffrey Rosen
- “Merely presenting a driver’s license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.” – Bob Dole
- “We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.” – Michael Bloomberg
- “Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we’ve gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we’re unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We’re unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.” – James Comey
- “I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.” – Ryan Sheckler
- “If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.” — Al Franken
- “The goal of cybersecurity is not to eliminate all risks, but to intelligently manage risks to an acceptable level.” – Michael Coates
- “Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through ‘voiceprints,’ akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.” — Alex Berenson
- “In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism.” — Kenneth R. Miller
- “Fingerprint matching is – you know the whole thing about how no two fingerprints are alike? That’s not strictly true.” – Adam Conover
- “Hackers are the immune system for the Information Age.” — Keren Elazari
- “There is no patch for careless, greedy, or stupid.” — Chuck Norris
- “Privacy – like eating and breathing – is one of life’s basic requirements.” — Katherine Neville
- “Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.” — Ralph Johnson
- “The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I’m dumping all my smartphones.” — John McAfee
- “It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.” — Malcolm Forbes
- “Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.” — Sun Tzu
- “The only secure computer is one that’s unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground.” — Frank Abagnale
- “Let’s face it: the future is now. We are already living in a cyber society, so we need to stop ignoring it or pretending that it is not affecting us.” — Marco Ciapelli
- Privacy is not for the passive. — Jeffrey Rosen
- Security program design must start with a risk assessment: enterprise risk, business risk, regulatory risk, technology risk, and industry risk. And you must keep looking at what’s happening in the world right now that could heighten these. — Tim Callahan
- “Cyber-physical systems are vital to society but are not viewed through a policy lens that reflects their complexity. Currently, there is no effective way for organizations to understand where cyber risk lies in their systems.” – Cyber Statecraft
- “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” — Stephane Nappo
- “60% of data breaches are caused by a failure to patch. If you correct that, you’ve eliminated 60% of breaches. And I didn’t even have to say AI or Blockchain! See how that works?” — Ricardo Lafosse
- “Since 2016, BEC losses have topped $26 billion. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg because many are too embarrassed to report it. Everyone and every organization is a potential target.” — Chris McMahon
- “I look for alignment with the purpose of what a startup company is trying to accomplish. Ethics matter significantly to me. Their behavior needs to treat the issue of cybersecurity like it’s something we can solve together.” — Maarten Van Horenbeeck
- “What we should actually be doing is thinking about what are our key controls that will mitigate the risks. How do we have those funneled and controlled through the team that we have, how do we work through that in a well-formatted, formulated process and pay attention to those controls we have chosen? Not a continual, add more, add more, add more.” — Dr. Chris Pierson
- “As we’ve come to realize, the idea that security starts and ends with the purchase of a prepackaged firewall is simply misguided.” — Art Wittmann
- “There’s not a ‘one and done’ solution for cybersecurity, no silver bullet as we like to call it. With cyber, there needs to be continuous care and feeding of the program. It’s a program that requires ongoing improvement. And that’s something very important to explain to the board.” — Zaki Abbas
- “In the aviation industry, safety is job 1. So we’re not using the word cybersecurity; we’re using the word safety. Safety of the digital self. And that resonates with our 80,000+ employees at Delta.” — Deborah Wheeler
- “Certain trusted individuals from critical companies need to receive government security clearances. It’s not just for the CEOs. It’s not just for the CTOs or the CIOs; it is for everybody who is involved in this directly. They have to be trusted people; they have to be vetted. And it will take some time to do this. But that’s one step because we really have to be on the same team.” — Col. Cedric Leighton
- “I really think that if we change our own approach and think about what we have available to us, that is what will unlock our ability to truly excel in security. It’s a perspective exercise. What would it look like if abundance were the reality and not resource constraint?” — Greg York
- “The integration of sensing, computation, control, and networking into physical objects and infrastructure, connecting them to the internet and to each other, defines a cyber-physical system.” – Allison Dunn
- “As intelligent features increase in cyber-physical systems, their performance and efficiency improve, but this connection between cyber and physical worlds also opens doors for serious security threats.” – Allison Dunn
- “You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony, but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.” — EA. Bucchianeri
- “As cybersecurity leaders, we have to create our message of influence because security is a culture, and you need the business to take place and be part of that security culture.” — Britney Hommertzheim
- “If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” — Tim Cook
- “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking
- “Cybersecurity is not just about protecting your devices. It’s about protecting yourself.”– Anonymous
- “There are only two types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached and don’t know it.” – Ted Schlein
- “Security leaders are under a lot of pressure to show quick wins while knowing full well that everything they do will be heavily scrutinized and challenged, and ultimately, they will pay the price for things that are not under their control.” — Yaron Levi
- “As we’ve come to realize, the idea that security starts and ends with the purchase of a prepackaged firewall is simply misguided.” — Art Wittmann
- “At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” — Jodi Rell
- “Encryption is the defense against the dark arts in the digital realm.” – Edward Snowden
- “It’s funny to us as we’re so used to worms and viruses being bad news rather than making the world a better place.” — Graham Cluley
- “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire; it wafts across the electrified borders.” — Ronald Reagan
- “Effective cybersecurity is not a product, but a process.” – Jim Langevin
- “As cybersecurity leaders, we have to create our message of influence because security is a culture, and you need the business to take place and be part of that security culture.” — Britney Hommertzheim
- “We are giving away too much biometric data. If a bad guy wants your biometric data, remember this: he doesn’t need your actual fingerprint, just the data that represents your fingerprint. That will be unique, one of a kind.” — Mike Muscatel, Sr.
- “One of the main cyber-risks is to think they don’t exist. The other is to try to treat all potential risks.” – Stephane Nappo
- “Cyber criminals can use personal details, such as your favorite color, the last four digits of your credit card, and your email addresses, to make educated guesses about your sign—in credentials.” — Larry Alton
- “I’ve come to the conclusion that if you give a data point to a company, they will eventually sell it, leak it, lose it, or get hacked and relieved of it. There really don’t seem to be any exceptions, and it gets depressing.” — Brian Krebs
- “A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one—way street.” — Doug Linder
- “Let’s face it: the future is now. We are already living in a cyber society, so we need to stop ignoring it or pretending that it is not affecting us.” — Marco Ciappelli
- “Every time you indulge in any sort of online activity, your data can be easily monitored and checked. The websites you visit receive your IP address, location, browser and operating system, screen resolution, ISP, and more. You can check on what information you give away at stayinvisible.com. I have nothing against sharing this data when I do simple browsing. I am like Dutch windows without curtains—doing nothing wrong; peep in whenever you want; I have nothing to hide.” — Victoria Ivey
- “The only crime that has been proven is the hack. That is the story.” — Ramon Fonseca
- “In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?” — Al Gore
- “In the very near future, cybersecurity exercises are going to be absolutely expected of all companies by regulators.” — Michael Vatis
- “Responders should not rush to kick intruders out”- Mathias Fuchs
- “When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’” — Edward Snowden
- “We demand privacy, yet we glorify those who break into computers.” — Bill McCollum
- “Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.” — Gary Kovacs
- “Amateurs hack systems, and professionals hack people.” — Bruce Schneier
- “Corporate America should get ready. Cybersecurity regulations will soon be coming to the United States—and that’s actually a good thing… I firmly believe that the US will pass similar regulations (like GDPR) over the next two years.” — Robert Herjavec
- “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”– Eric Schmidt
- “Hoaxes use weaknesses in human behavior to ensure they are replicated and distributed. In other words, hoaxes prey on the Human Operating System.” — Stewart Kirkpatrick
- “Only people with dull lives can afford to forego privacy.” — Jan Chipchase
- “A secure system is one that does what it is supposed to.” — Eugene Spafford
- “Ransomware is unique among cybercrimes because, in order for the attack to be successful, it requires the victim to become a willing accomplice after the fact.” — James Scott
- “Hackers are always one step ahead of you.” – Unknown
- “We believe that making cyber-physical systems more resilient will require a collective effort that spans government agencies, private sector organizations, and individuals. The goal is to build a future where these systems are secure, adaptable, and capable of recovering quickly from disruptions.” – Anton Chuvakin
- “We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security-centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure.” — James Scott
- “One person’s ‘paranoia’ is another person’s ‘engineering redundancy.’” — Marcus J. Ranum
- “What happens in Vegas ends up on YouTube.” — Tim Leberecht
- “Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.” — Pete Cashmore
- “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that the NSA can frequently find ways around it.” — Edward Snowden
- “Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.” — Eric Raymond
- “The importance of epistemic security and cybersecurity is now comparable to that of national security.” – Roger Spitz
- “Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.” — Dan Lipinski
- “Trust, but verify.” – Ronald Reagan
- “Cybersecurity is a continuous cycle of protection, detection, response, and recovery.” – Chris Painter
- “Time is what determines security. With enough time, nothing is unhackable.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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