Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Alex Stamos
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Alex Stamos.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.
There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
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 that happens between security teams at trusted parties without renumeration.
There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute to the protection and defense of the Internet.
I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.
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 that's a mistake.
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.
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.
We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.
Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45 languages in 60 countries. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, we enjoy some of the longest-lasting customer relationships on the Web.
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. As a result, lots of us are reinventing the wheel and solving the same problems without realizing that our neighbors have already built great solutions.
Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.
A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other things. They will hack on behalf of spammers, and will just be hired for a specific job.
There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.
The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.
Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.
Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.
What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.
Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.
While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem and to fight it at each phase of its life cycle.
If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.
I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.
I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
There are a lot of Yahoo users who live in countries where their freedom of expression and freedom of association is not respected and where the government is trying to put malware on their computers to track them.
It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.
Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.
People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.
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 the trust people have in us and our growth.
Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.
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