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Insider threats are not viewed as seriously as external threats, like a cyber attack. 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, sometime forever.
Larry Ponemon

Don’t rely on “human in the loop” to perform security critical functions and always strive for taking the “human out of the loop” in designing security.
M. Uğur Aksu

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it’s easy to remember, it’s something nonrandom like ‘Susan’. And if it’s random, like ‘r7U2*Qnp’ then it’s not easy to remember.
Bruce Schneier

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
Bruce Schneier

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.
Donald Trump

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
Philip Hammond

Look at manuals for programs. In many ways, good and accurate manuals tell you many assumptions the program or system makes! More often than not, these will lead you to security problems.
Matt Bishop

The single biggest existential threat that’s out there, I think, is cyber.
Michael Mullen

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view — I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.
Tim Cook

Cyber weapons provide the tantalizing possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Philip Hammond

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it’s benign… But I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
Ted Bell

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America’s most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovations and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
James Comey

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
Gary Kovacs

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.
Pete Cashmore

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.
Michael Demon Calce

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
Dorothy E. Denning

The hacker mindset doesn’t actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
Kevin Mitnick

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one’s thought of.
Walter O’Brien

The hackers don’t want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
Vinton Cerf

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
Tim Berners-Lee