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Alex Stamos, a well-known figure at security conferences and Congressional hearings, had pushed Yahoo to expand privacy protections for users following leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
During Stamos’s tenure, Yahoo pledged to offer a fully encrypted email service and moved to add encryption to more of its websites. It’s unclear what his departure means for those efforts. A Yahoo spokeswoman would only confirm Stamos’s move and said current Yahoo security executive, Ramses Martinez, will serve as interim chief information security officer.
Stamos is also known for occasionally bringing levity to computer security, which can get bogged down in jargon and sky-is-falling dramatics. He helped inspire a recent Page One story in The Wall Street Journal, about the overuse of the prefix “cyber.”
At Facebook, Stamos will be chief security officer, replacing Joseph Sullivan, who recently left for the same post at ride-sharing app Uber.
A Facebook spokesman also confirmed the hire. Stamos referred reporters to astatement on his Facebook page.
“There is no company in the world that is better positioned to tackle the challenges faced not only by today’s Internet users but for the remaining 2/3rds of humanity we have yet to connect,” he wrote.
Source: www.wsj.com
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