Alex Stamos

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.

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.

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.

We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.

The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.

Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.