Leaked: Facebook safety boss tells its corporate network is run "like a college campus"

as mentioned in The safety chief too told which the firm had issued a report on where the firm stands from a safety perspective, in what he described as a "very painful process." "My team runs network safety for the company, and of course we safe it thoroughly," he told Thursday. "It's not a criticism of anybody, just a statement of why our team needs to be inventive in how we prevent our corporate network." Stamos, a staunch safety and privacy advocate, joined Facebook in June 2015 after a brief stint at Yahoo as chief data safety officer. Tech companies, involving Facebook, are feeling the heat after admitting which Russian adversaries had used the platform to purchas advertesment to effect the 2016 election.

Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, safety chief says

Facebook is Struggling to live up to the responsibility it faces for adequately securing the vast amount of personal data it amasses, the social network's highest safety executive told in a leaked smartphone dial with firm employees. Stamos too discussed a report on the state of Facebook's safety posture and described it as a "very painful process." "My team runs network safety for the company, and of course we safe it thoroughly," Stamos said. I was asked for comment this day wrt some leaked audio from the time I was speaking to my safety team at Facebook. The 'college campus' wording is just a figure of speech to make the point."

Facebook safety chief, in leaked audio, proposes Facebook ought boost cyber defenses

referring to Facebook chief safety officer Alex Stamos tells in a leaked audio recording which the company's cyber defense operations are run "like a college campus, almost" to satisfy the company's internal culture of freedom to experiment, even though Facebook faces the same kinds of highly sophisticated attacks as a defense contractor. "We have the menace profile of a…defense contractor, however we run our corporate networks…like a college campus, almost," he says. Stamos, previously the chief safety officer of Yahoo, then went on Twitter to explain his coments. "The college campus wording is just a figure of speech to make a point," Stamos posted. "As a result, we could not architect our safety the same way a defense contractor can, with limited computing options and no freedom.

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