Alex Stamos
The CSO Who Resigned Over It
Yahoo, Facebook, and saying the uncomfortable thing in public
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
Enterprise securityPlatform abuseDisinformation
Scouting report
Was CISO at Yahoo, where he objected to a government email-scanning programme, then CSO at Facebook through the investigation into foreign influence operations, leaving in 2018 over how much the company would disclose. Publicly challenged the NSA director on encryption backdoors, founded the Stanford Internet Observatory, and co-founded iSEC Partners and later Krebs Stamos Group.
Curator’s note
The card about what the job costs when you do it honestly.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Alex Stamos by Web Summit, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Alex Stamos en.wikipedia.org
- 02Stanford Internet Observatory cyber.fsi.stanford.edu