Quotes by John Pescatore

“The open-source community hasnt learned to do bare-knuckle marketing yet. But every time Microsoft has these problems, it helps Linux in a very big way.”

“The Linux community doesnt want to be seen as ambulance chasers. Companies that dont follow etiquette rules in security lose share.”

“The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.”

“[For example, as a stock trader,] youre only allowed access to research if you have $100,000 in your account, ... If you start with this mechanism of business processes, entitlement and privileges, and those get implemented by security rules, youre golden because you dont have a separate business and security policy rule set.”

“the benefit back to them does not exceed the risk they perceive in making that information available.”

“the rise of targeted attacks has poked big holes in a lot of companies intrusion-detection strategies.”

“It is expensive and intrusive,”

“The Phone.com approach lets you get all the way to your application server.”

“Clipper was a heavy-handed way of forcing a particular design into things, and the reason Clipper failed is the same reasons that this will fail. Users lose out if cryptography is weakened or ineffective or much harder to use.”

“[Targeted attacks] dont generate press, so they dont encourage other companies to prepare for them.”