If you break into an oil company and you're able to find out what gas leases they're interested in, that could be a multi-billion dollar swing in value for one company over another a multi-decade period. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don't see widespread adoption.… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
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 I think… — Alex Stamos Copy Share
If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016. — Alex Stamos Copy Share
