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“Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.”
“Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.”
“A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.”
“The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.”
“It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.”
“While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.”
“Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.”
“We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.”
“In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.”
“It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.”
“When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.”
“After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely new type of security strategy and technology was needed.”
“With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.”
“Fancy Bear actually went after opposition research and, specifically, research related to the Trump candidacy.”
“AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.”
“Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.”
“In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that's completely misguided.”
“Victims don't want to know they're victims. I guess that's just victim psychology: if you don't know about it, it's not really happening.”
“The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.”
“I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.”