Cyber Hygiene Quotes

“We’re talking about the fate of our economy and the questionable resiliency of our Nation’s critical infrastructure. Why are experts so polite, patient, and forgiving when talking about cybersecurity and National Security? The drama of each script kiddie botnet attack and Nation State pilfering of our IP has been turned into a soap opera through press releases, sound bites and enforced absurdity of mainstream media. It’s time for a cybersecurity zeitgeist in the West where cyber hygiene is a meme that is aggressively distributed by those who have mastered it and encouraged to be imitated by those who have experienced it.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber hygiene has to memetically pounded into the intellectual DNA of the American population and continuously
reinforced by peer pressure.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A CISO's job is to streamline, harmonize and propagate cybersecurity and cyber hygiene throughout the organizational IoT microcosm and staff”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The cyber hygienically apathetic c-suites running critical infrastructure organization are losing this war. This this is a cyber kinetic meta war and its hyper evolving in an already next gen space.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the sophistication of your IoT microcosm security. Whatever obstacles I run into exploiting your technical vulnerabilities will be made up for by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the cyber hygiene of your staff.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“It may take legions of cybersecurity advocates to broadcast the importance of cybersecurity awareness before it is truly baked into our daily routines.”
― Laura S. Scherling, Ed.D., The Future of Hacking: The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Sa