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> [“Your organization’s illusion based security theater will lose to the reality of cyber-attack any day of the week.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/your-organization-s-illusion-based-security-theater-will-lose-to-the/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

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## More by James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/dragnet-surveillance-capitalists-such-as-facebook-comcast-at-t-and/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“You can keep the Office of Personnel Management records, I don't need Electronic Health Records, give me the metadata, big data analytics and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/you-can-keep-the-office-of-personnel-management-records-i-don-t-need/)

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 within our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/america-is-a-reactionary-society-which-makes-us-prone-and-vulnerable/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically functional geography to a cyber geography that is ruled by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/we-ve-gone-from-a-planet-ruled-by-natural-geography-to-political/)

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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/the-cyber-shield-act-could-serve-as-a-secure-conduit-to-facilitate/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“The disturbingly techno-illiterate and cyber-hygienically lackadaisical and shockingly arrogant responses by the National Association of Secretaries of States when we at ICIT repeatedly showed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/the-disturbingly-techno-illiterate-and-cyber-hygienically/)

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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/overall-cyber-shield-act-is-an-excellent-idea-and-could-facilitate-a/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the health sector”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/hccic-by-the-c-suite-at-hhs-is-a-profound-statement-of-having-the/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/you-are-a-product-to-dragnet-surveillance-capitalists-like-google/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/i-don-t-care-how-secure-you-think-your-organization-is-i-ll-social/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom of though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/your-ideas-are-bound-to-forces-of-which-you-have-no-control-due-to/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“The cyber hygienically apathetic c-suites running critical infrastructure organization are losing this war. This this is a cyber kinetic meta war and its hyper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/the-cyber-hygienically-apathetic-c-suites-running-critical/)

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 academics who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/in-this-business-i-find-more-value-in-working-with-hackers-who/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“The way to stifle China’s growth is to inhibit the flow of their connectivity. In order to slow down Chinese expansion, we need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/the-way-to-stifle-china-s-growth-is-to-inhibit-the-flow-of-their/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

> [“Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-scott-senior-fellow-institute-for-critical-infrastructure-technology/medical-devices-and-ehr-systems-are-notoriously-vulnerable-to-remote/)

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

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