IT Security Quotes
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What Could Go Even WrongER!

I work from the Desk of VicU Computers Helpers. Pleeze conform to me your pazzword or your Internet will dissolve.

Yeah, right. IT Security is a huge, HUGE issue and is now part of our digital lives – both personally and professionally. And for good reason.

So, right off the top, the best and most informative sites are HERE AT UVIC! If you haven’t visited, read or been told about these incredible resources, then now is your chance. And since a picture is worth 1000 words …. here are 6000 words!

Click on each image below to go to the UVic site.

University Systems status update
**Phishing**

**Phishing Awareness Training Campaign**

**VIDEO: 5 Common Cybersecurity Questions Answered**

**Personal Perspectives from UVic’s Chief Information Security Officer**

**UVic Team Triumphs at National Cybersecurity Competition**

Enroll in any computer security training that UVic has to offer! Refresh your Cyber Spidey Sense Skills all the time! Be aware of Phishing attempts! And be even MORE VIGILANT now that we are working from home – the same skills you are honing for work, are as important for your home digital security too!

“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.”
– Richard Clarke

“My message for companies that think they haven’t been attacked is: You are not looking hard enough.”
-James Snook

“The five most efficient cyber defenders are: Anticipation, Education, Detection, Reaction and Resilience. Do remember: Cybersecurity is much more than an IT topic.”
– Stephane Nappo

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.”
– Stephan Nappo

“USBs are the devil. They just are.”
– Overheard at SecureWorld, Atlanta

“IoT without security = Internet of Threats”
– Stephane Nappo

“One Person’s “paranoia” is another person’s engineering redundancy.”
– Marcus J. Ranum

“Two things about the NSA stunned me right off the bat: how technologically sophisticated it was compared with the CIA, and how much less vigilant it was about security in its every iteration, from the compartmentalization of information to data encryption.”
– Edward Snowden

“If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.”
– Dan Farmer

“You have to make sure that your hard drive is external from your computer. If you put yourself in the minds of the thief, they want to make a quick buck. They don’t really care about your hard drive, just your computer. An external hard drive is critical. In my case they left the hard drive behind and I was able to plug it into my new computer. It was the key to everything.”
– Michael Stelzner

And once again, similar to yesterday’s post “Famous Computer Quotes or What Could Go Wrong!” these are just a few of my favourite ones!

Oddly, there aren’t too many current IT Security videos at YouTube that I hoped for. So that means, as I mentioned above, check UVic’s own sites for the most current and most pertinent information about computer security! My Go To pages! They are listed below too!

If I had a single favourite quote, it would be this ……