Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has announced that he’s leaving the organization on August 17 and will be joining Stanford University full-time as a teacher and researcher.
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“I have even had the delight of lecturing at Stanford for several years, and now I will have the respect of guiding new generations of college students as an Adjunct Professor on the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies,” he said.
“I may also hold my work understanding and stop the misuse of technology as a Cyber Initiative Fellow, a William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, and a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution. This fall, I am very excited to release a direction coaching the hands-on offensive and defensive techniques and to contribute to the new cybersecurity grasp’s strong point at FSI. I am also looking forward to other possibilities to make a contribution to Stanford’s attention on ethically designing and enforcing new technology.”
Stamos can even the university’s Faculty Working Group on Information Warfare, with the intention to behavior research on countermeasures to become aware of and fight information warfare.
“The operating organization may even broaden coverage outreach in briefings to government officers, public seminars and workshops, Congressional testimony, online and conventional media appearances, op-eds, and different sorts of instructing the public on combating information struggle,” the university defined.
“We are pleased that Alex is devoting even greater energy to our cyber efforts,” stated Amy Zegart, Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation.
“He’s been a critical companion to the Stanford cyber coverage application for several years, and his Stanford ‘hack lab’- which he piloted in Spring 2018 – is a modern-day class to teach students in our new grasp of cyber coverage. He brings super capabilities and a unique perspective to increase our classes, research, and policy programs.”
Alex Stamos joined Facebook as Chief Security Officer in 2015, after a brief stint as CISO of Yahoo.
“For the ultimate 3 years, I had been proud to work with some of the most skilled and committed security professionals in the world in one of the hardest risk environments faced by any technology employer. We have labored together to construct new protections around user records, enhance the security of products used by billions, roll out innovative encryption and privacy protections at unheard of scale, and take a look at and react to new training of abuse through the world’s maximum advanced adversaries,” he mentioned in his announcement.
During his tenure as Facebook CSO, he led the enterprise’s investigation into the center-right election-associated campaigns that focused on influencing users of the social media platform and has recommended greater transparency concerning this problem (and in doing so clashed with the employer’s criminal and coverage teams).
According to the NYT, his departure became planned and his daily responsibilities had been reassigned to others in December 17.
Facebook will not be looking for a new CSO, as the safety crew has been reorganized to paintings greater closely with the product and engineering groups.
