Dmitri Alperovitch

“A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.”

“Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.”

“We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is via cyber, and particularly attacks against our financial sector. This is something they have really perfected as an art against South Korea.”

“The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.”

“CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016.”

“In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.”

“Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.”

“The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic growth, collaboration, civil education, and awe-inspiring lifestyle improvements for billions of people.”

“At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after, and what their tradecraft is. We also disseminate that information to enable collective action.”

“Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and signaling instrument in conflicts.”

“Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.”

“I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.”

“I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.”

“You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.”

“Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every aspect of the attack is obfuscated.”

“What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.”

“Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.”

“The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.”

“The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.”

“If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.”