Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work. Alex Stamos Read Quote
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm. Alex Stamos Read Quote
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. Alex Stamos Read Quote
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. Alex Stamos Read Quote
There’s a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors. Alex Stamos Read Quote
People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization. Alex Stamos Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
