Icit Quotes

“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.”

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Manufacturing consent begins by weaponizing the meme and utilizing the censorship algorithms of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“The health sector is in desperate need of a cyber hygiene injection”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programming and the mass hallucination of the propagandist’s narrative illusion.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“A CISO's job is to streamline, harmonize and propagate cybersecurity and cyber hygiene throughout the organizational IoT microcosm and staff”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The weaponized meme, when properly introduced and reinforced, will parasitically weave its way throughout the labyrinth of the mind and attach itself…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“This cyberwar will be a continuous marathon war that will only compound and hyper-evolve in stealth, sophistication and easy entry due to…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cyber hygiene has to memetically pounded into the intellectual DNA of the American population and continuously reinforced by peer pressure.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery" James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Political correctness is a loaded gun that the individual holds to their own head. Where laws can’t stomp on freedom of speech,…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“The two main problems with signature and heuristic based anti-virus is the mutating hash and the fact that you first need a…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“In the United States there is a unique blend of patriotism indoctrination from the pulpit which blends establishment controls into the religious…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“The illusion of time and space that has been introduced by those who want to commodities and monetize on the time and…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep." James…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Overall, Cyber Shield Act is an excellent idea and could facilitate a much-needed cultural shift in secure device manufacturing and upkeep.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cybersecurity whitepaper authors have it all wrong! It’s about weaponizing the mind of the reader so that when they’re done reading the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“First and foremost, the most profound weapon a nation or special interest can possess is “control” over information. This contributes to control…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies

“The cyber industry is riddled with faux experts and self-proclaimed scholars, Tallinn Manual 2.0 is a perfect example of what happens when…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Senator Markey’s Cyber Shield Act can work! Start the conversations with the basics: Use a QR code that attaches to a dynamic…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“America is a reactionary society which makes us prone and vulnerable to Hegelian dialectic style manipulation. I’m more concerned about the adversaries…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“In this business, I find more value in working with hackers who abstract new realities from cast aside code and concepts than…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology