Barack Obama:

I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with [the cyber] threat.

Joseph M. Demarest Jr., assistant director of the FBI's cyberdivision:

We're fighting Ph.D.s on the other side of the world.

Steven Bellovin:

Remember, the United States has no monopoly on programmers.

Paul Graham:

It will always be true that most people who are great at anything are born outside the US.

Ariha Setalvad:

More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled.

Virginia Lehmkuhl-Dakhwe:

The number of jobs in information security is going to grow tenfold in the next 10 years.

Rapid7:

The inability to find skilled staff to grow security programs remains one of the key challenges for the industry. By contrast, criminal hacking teams seem to be fully staffed.