“Frankly, the cyber threat is the most serious economic and national security challenge we face as a nation.”— Dennis C. Blair
“I have used the phrase 'digital Dunkirk' to describe our vulnerability to cyber attack.”— Michael Hayden
“Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and it's one that we all have a role to play in.”— Rand Beers
“The lesson is that the attacks are going to get more and more sophisticated, and we have to be on our toes to be ready for them.”— Edward Felten
“Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of intrusions.”— Dorothy Denning
“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems.”— Kevin Mitnick
“Cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and it boils down to this: in cyberspace, the behaviors we promote and allow, determine the security we will have.”— Michael Chertoff
“Information warfare is the use of information and information systems as weapons in a conflict where the information and information systems are themselves the targets.”— Dorothy Denning
“There is no silver bullet for cybersecurity. It requires a layered approach, with multiple lines of defense.”— Dorothy Denning
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.”— Kevin Mitnick