“Well this comes down to an issue that we face with these devices that have not faced in the IT industry until recently. These are mobile devices typically policy enforcement on a static fixed enterprise. I am wired into my campuses, glue them all in with an Ethernet and I can control it. These devices need to be policy controlled with mobile based firewalls that have geolocation abilities in them so that we can enforce policy where they have their physical location of the device itself.”

“No consumers are idiots! They don’t think about security! They don’t think of privacy! Okay this device is really cool! I can get on Facebook and do that entire sort of thing. There is this unfortunate tendency on the part of the consumer that someone else has to handle it. “I don’t need to worry about it.” That problem has existed for 30 years with the computer and with the new computer it is only going to get worse.”

“My career has been about awareness and getting people to think about things that they don't have to think about."

"Is [info warfare] going to get nastier? Yes, it’s going to get nastier."

“The information security professional can’t be concerned with who it is that’s attacking his or her network... It’s all about the capabilities, and capabilities keep going up.”

"I'll tell you what my hope is, and maybe it's fairly unrealistic considering how long things take in the real world. It's where employees can get certifications that would be able to reduce risk cost, insurance costs and, from a real dollars and cents perspective, the losses are much less internal than external."

"Security is really about people and the technology should be absolutely incidental.” 

"Insiders are the key. Human firewalls and IDS."

"I see no reason that an operating system should not be self-repellant."

"What happened to the global electronic bill of rights we signed 61 years ago?"

"Who knew that a no-name like me would get umpteen visits from spooks and spies Information Warfare in 1992? They thought the book was classified information, written by the he-devil."