Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets. Alex Stamos More Quotes by Alex Stamos More Quotes From 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 thinkgovernmentimportantwork What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure. Alex Stamos buildjustsafetrying I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption. Alex Stamos i-thinkwhothinklife If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential. Alex Stamos youryoulawyerfamily 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. Alex Stamos livecomputersfreedomgovernment We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time. Alex Stamos contenttimeworldmoving Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people. Alex Stamos endjobresponsibilitypeople 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. Alex Stamos thinksecuritywantmistake 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 swingvaluefindyou Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms. Alex Stamos everyservicebrokenweak 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. Alex Stamos newengineerscreativityfreedom The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic. Alex Stamos definitionsomespeechhate Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else. Alex Stamos everyonesecuritybrilliantpeople 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. Alex Stamos intelligenceinformationtalking 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. Alex Stamos willsecurityinternetresearch 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. Alex Stamos resultproblemsgreatinformation Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments. Alex Stamos willpoliticalpeopleworld 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 i-amsecuritybuildingproud
