News - Press Quotes

Press Quotes of Noel Matchett

The 21st Century - History Being Relived
"The military threat has been reduced; in some places it doesn't exist. Economics has become the battlefield." . . . "Most American companies are naive about the extent of industrial espionage . . If they can save a buck by cutting back on security, they'll do it. It's a formula for disaster."
The Boston Globe

"They [foreign intelligence services] may be getting your most confidential marketing strategies by intercepting satellite transmissions, and there's almost no way you can find out."
The Wall Street Journal

"The other problem is corporations' reluctance to discuss industrial espionage. If you're doing it, you're not going to say. If it's done to you, you're not going to say."
The Washington Business Journal

"American businesses are not really up against some little competitor They're up against the whole intelligence apparatus of other countries. And they're getting their clocks cleaned."
Time Magazine

"Hostile and even friendly nations routinely steal information from U.S. companies and share it with their own companies . .You can have a dozen competitors stealing your secrets at the same time."
The Wall Street Journal

The 1990s
"The ability of an organization to survive in the increasingly competitive global marketplace of the 1990s depends in large part on the security and control of its information."
Friendly Spies
by Peter Schweizer

The 1980s
'"We're babes-in-the-woods when it comes to economic espionage" complains Noel Matchett, the former NSA expert who directed the $400 million effort to protect U.S. phone systems from the Soviets.'
War by Other Means
by John J. Fialka