Dmitri Alperovitch

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.

— 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

The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Fancy Bear actually went after opposition research and, specifically, research related to the Trump candidacy.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after,…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves…

— 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…

— 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…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack,…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is…

— 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…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The Internet is a global resource that does not belong to any one nation or alliance. It has contributed to amazing economic…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only…

— 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…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

In the physical world, we would never blame the victim of the assault for that assault taking place, but yet we do…

— 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,…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

After the investigation of Operation Aurora, the cyberattack on Google from within China that was revealed in 2010, I realized a completely…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and…

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In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it…

— 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…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Cyber criminals are good... but they cut corners. They don't spend a lot of time tweaking things and making sure that every…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political…

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that…

— Dmitri Alperovitch