Alex Stamos to Become CSO of Facebook

So totally saw Alex getting some major opportunities coming his way, and very much deserved. If you don&#x27;t follow infosec watch the entire hour video of Mike Rogers and the Q&amp;A that included Alex along with Bruce Schneier before him. Alex&#x27;s lucid, persistent and funny Q&amp;A raised his profile in a big way this year.<p>Here&#x27;s the Q&amp;A and while I do think the intelligence community actually does some decent work on occasion, the kind of doublespeak displayed by Rogers here is what really gives the IC a bad name and has lead it down bad paths. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TjL1WYhLx-M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TjL1WYhLx-M</a><p>I&#x27;d also very much encourage developers here to watch this presentation which is my personal favorite. Alex talk about some really smart ways to approach application security and why the idea of a traditional firewall is basically dead. Also some interesting stuff re moving away from virtualization towards containerization. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-1kZMn1RueI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-1kZMn1RueI</a><p>Edit: Just wanted to add, I really hope he continues contributing talks to the infosec community as they&#x27;re a great contribution.

I&#x27;m excited about this. Facebook has aggressively evolved its Security org over the years and they have given security a whole new level of focus in the past few years. I was there for 8.5 years and watched them grow and reinvent themselves a few times. I think FB&#x27;s Security team is one of its crown jewels and it&#x27;s great to see Alex joining FB. This will shake things up further and will likely lead to more great things.

Somewhat interesting is the fact that the previous Facebook CSO was Joe Sullivan (now CSO at Uber), who did not have an &quot;IT security&quot; background at all; most of his career is oriented towards law (he has a J.D. after all ;))<p>Contrast this to Alex Stamos, who&#x27;s given many presentations at Defcon&#x2F;Blackhat, co-founded iSEC, EE&#x2F;CS background, and it seems a bit of a mentality shift for Facebook.

I can&#x27;t think of a better person to replace their outgoing CSO. He made a lot of positive changes at Yahoo and I can&#x27;t wait to see what he does at Facebook with the amazing team there.

All they need now is Himanshu and Joel and they&#x27;ll have most of original iSEC back together under one roof.<p>Congrats to Alex.

I see a lot of comments about how great Alex Stamos is. I have not followed the industry long enough to know -- why is he great? What makes him different from a crappy engineer, or even Average Joe engineer?

I was much more excited when I thought it was John Stamos.

Why did he leave Yahoo?

Does this mean they eventually want to make a foray into Enterprise?

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