Top Cyber Security Quotes That Make You Think

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“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and its money wasted; none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.”
— Kevin Mitnick, One of The World’s Most Famous Hackers. (Source: The Economist)

 “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, One of the Iconic Scientists of Our Time.

Cyber Security Quotes(Source: The Independent)

“ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet and it was our idea. I want to get the brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS can’t do what they’re doing. You talk freedom of speech, you talk freedom of anything you want, I don’t want them using our Internet to take our young impressionable youth … I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.”

  • Donald J. Trump, The President of the USA

(Source: IB Times)

“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.”

  • Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft

(Source: Inside the Mind of Bill Gates By Shaun Green)

“Traditionally, when we think about security and protecting ourselves, we think in terms of armor or walls. Increasingly, I find myself looking to medicine and thinking about viruses, antibodies. Part of the reason why cybersecurity continues to be so hard is because the threat is not a bunch of tanks rolling at you but a whole bunch of systems that may be vulnerable to a worm getting in there. It means that we’ve got to think differently about our security, make different investments that may not be as sexy but may actually end up being as important as anything”

  • Barack Obama, Former President of the USA

(Source: Wired.Com)