Words matter. These are the best Dmitri Alperovitch Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.
The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.
The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.
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.
I think it’s safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it’s not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.
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.
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.
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.
Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what’s going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.
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.
When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.
While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.
The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.
It’s a great honor to be selected as one of ‘Foreign Policy”s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.
Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It’s a mythical flying horse.
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.
In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do so all the time in the cyber world. I think that’s completely misguided.
Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and signaling instrument in conflicts.
AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It’s also going to be beneficial to criminals.
The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.
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.
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.
