Alex Stamos

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”