Howard Schmidt Quotations

We're much stronger today than we have been ever in the past.

In software development, we need to have personal quality assurances from developers that the code they write is secure.

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

I have spent my career trying to raise national awareness of information security issues through my various corporate and public policy positions. By joining the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, one of our nation's most progressive and innovative academic environments for computing, I can now provide my vision and insight to those research and educational initiatives that will drive the future development of cyber security solutions for the everyday computer user.

We see people talking about the digital Pearl Harbor from the worms and Trojans and viruses. But in all probability, there's more likelihood of what we call the 'backhoe attack' that would have more impact on a region then a Code Red, or anything we've seen so far.

We never know whose fingers are on the keyboard on the other end.

It's not about developing better patching mechanisms. The long-term answer is you just write better code.

We all have some concerns about the future of attacks against applications and databases. The biggest issue is when you start laying your Web infrastructure over these back-end applications.