Alex Stamos

Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.

— Alex Stamos

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

— Alex Stamos

Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.

— Alex Stamos

Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.

— Alex Stamos

Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.

— Alex Stamos

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

— Alex Stamos

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

— Alex Stamos

We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.

— Alex Stamos

For most companies, they don't want to ever talk about security unless it's an absolute emergency and they've had a breach. And…

— Alex Stamos

The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a…

— Alex Stamos

We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections…

— Alex Stamos

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at…

— Alex Stamos

I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

— Alex Stamos

There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute…

— Alex Stamos

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto.…

— Alex Stamos

I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing'…

— Alex Stamos

Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don't see…

— Alex Stamos

Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45…

— Alex Stamos

I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.

— Alex Stamos

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

— Alex Stamos

There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.

— Alex Stamos

The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.

— Alex Stamos

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

— Alex Stamos

There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.

— Alex Stamos

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

— Alex Stamos

What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.

— Alex Stamos

There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.

— Alex Stamos

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

— Alex Stamos

Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.

— Alex Stamos

Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.

— Alex Stamos

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

— Alex Stamos

While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem…

— Alex Stamos

A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also…

— Alex Stamos

Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom…

— Alex Stamos

Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political…

— Alex Stamos

There are a lot of Yahoo users who live in countries where their freedom of expression and freedom of association is not…

— Alex Stamos

If you break into an oil company and you're able to find out what gas leases they're interested in, that could be…

— Alex Stamos