Dmitri Alperovitch

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know. ”

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies. ”

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power. ”

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States. ”

We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world. ”

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation. ”

The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies. ”

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. ”

We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is via cyber, and particularly attacks against our financial sector. This is something they have really perfected as an art against South Korea. ”

Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every aspect of the attack is obfuscated. ”