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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.

Dmitri Alperovitch

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.

Dmitri Alperovitch

The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

Dmitri Alperovitch

It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.

Dmitri Alperovitch

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only against really high-value targets.

Dmitri Alperovitch

We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.

Dmitri Alperovitch

A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.

Dmitri Alperovitch

The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic growth, collaboration, civil education, and awe-inspiring lifestyle improvements for billions of people.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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.

Dmitri Alperovitch

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

Dmitri Alperovitch

With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.

Dmitri Alperovitch