29 Quotes by John Pescatore

Vendors have not always been in synch about what is the best way to offer security functions to handheld device users.

Security is important for cell phones because it is much more likely that a user will lose that device than a laptop or desktop computer.

From the experimenting stage, it moved to vandalism, and we had all these defacement attacks. After that, it became politically motivated and we kind of expected the next phase to be cyber-crime. That's the stage we're in today with these kinds of extortion attacks.

People who sell this data need to have a verification system, and they don't. The enforcement is lax.

Microsoft has so many patches it really has developed the industry-leading way of dealing with patches. We're definitely seeing many vendors moving to more predictable patch release.

The problem is the Webmasters control the Web server, ... There's no chance firewall software will survive on the server. Web server firewalls won't be widely used.

The problem is the Webmasters control the Web server,

Wall Street-type companies have done this sort of interoperability but typically under controlled conditions, ... What may look easy to Dean Witter may not look so easy to others, especially smaller companies.

We knew it was going to be at least 20 percent lower than competitors' prices. We didn't think they would dump it at a super-duper low price.