Dmitri Alperovitch

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013. ”