Alex Stamos

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

“While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem and to fight it at each phase of its life cycle.”

“Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.”

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

“What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.”

“Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.”

“I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.”

“Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.”

“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.”

“Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45 languages in 60 countries. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, we enjoy some of the longest-lasting customer relationships on the Web.”

“Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don't see widespread adoption. As a result, lots of us are reinventing the wheel and solving the same problems without realizing that our neighbors have already built great solutions.”

“Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.”

“I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.”

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