“One of the main cyber-risks is to think they don’t exist. The other is to try to treat all potential risks. (Fix the basics, protect first what matters for your business and be ready to react properly to pertinent threats. Think data, but also business services integrity, awareness, customer experience, compliance, and reputation).” -Stephane Nappo (Quote of the week: Risk Management | Mars 17, 2018)
"Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to." -Bruce Schneier (Quote of the week: Computer Security | Feb 10, 2018)
"The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully." - Kevin Mitnick (Quote of the week : Security Education | Oct 23, 2017)
"Information is a significant component of most organizations’ competitive strategy either by the direct collection, management, and interpretation of business information or the retention of information for day-to-day business processing. Some of the more obvious results of IS failures include reputational damage, placing the organization at a competitive disadvantage, and contractual noncompliance. These impacts should not be underestimated." - Institute of Internal Auditors (Quote of the week : Data Protection | Oct 7, 2017)
"If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked" - Richard Clarke. (Quote of the week : Work hard! | Sep 25, 2017)