Cyberattack Quotes

“You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“If you think you know-it-all about cybersecurity, this discipline was probably ill-explained to you.”
― Stephane Nappo

“The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is nothing less than the commoditization and monetization of American Democracy”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“As we’ve already seen with exfiltrated voter registration databases and the endless methods of poisoning manufacturer updates, manipulating DRE and optical scan machines and bypassing air gap defense, the state election official’s illusion of security is being pummeled by the reality of cyberattack.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Between the black box proprietary code, barebones computers we call voting machines and a mass of completely unqualified election officials, our election system is up for grabs to anybody with even a modest interest and some script kiddie capability. The cyber-kinetic attack surface here is wide open.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Your organization’s illusion based security theater will lose to the reality of cyber-attack any day of the week.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Ransomware is not only about weaponizing encryption, its more about bridging the fractures in the mind with a
weaponized message that demands a response from the victim.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A cyberattack is a keyboard warrior's greatest weapon.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov