Podcast: Yahoo's Alex Stamos on e-mail encryption and keeping 1 billion customers secure
Yahoo's chief information security officer joins Passcode and New America for their monthly podcast about cybersecurity.
Alex Stamos is Yahoo's chief information security officer.
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What's it like to be the person at your company charged with protecting more than 1 billion global users from a range of online threats?
Alex Stamos, Yahoo's chief information security officer, talks about this on a new monthly podcast cohosted by think tank New America and Passcode, 海角大神's new site on security and privacy. When big companies are hacked, those who hold his position across the industry are in the spotlight 鈥� and many of them are pretty stressed out.
"Being a CISO is a tough job," Mr. Stamos says. "I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people." While Stamos has the backing of his organization, other CISOs across the private sector may not feel like the people in their organizations take their jobs as seriously as the cyberthreats demand. "That's changing but it's changing slowly," he says.听
On the podcast, Stamos talks about his company's new end-to-end e-mail encryption rollout, meant to be an easier way to provide advanced security for users, and what it's like to lead a team of so-called "paranoids" keeping the company secure and developing new security solutions. He also talks about how bug bounties (rewards for finding security flaws) are opening up pipelines of talent across the world. 听听
Heather West听of Internet performance and security company CloudFlare joins the podcast to talk about why startups need good security solutions 鈥� and why hackers want to target some of the world's newest companies. The panel also discusses the recent special feature from Passcode on how听states and regions are vying to become the Silicon Valley of cybersecurity.
This episode was sponsored by听The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Identity.
The Cybersecurity Podcast is a new monthly program featuring key leaders and thinkers in this space. Cybersecurity is not just computers and digital processes. Whether it's the threat or the response, the most important, and most interesting, part of the story is the people behind the keyboard.听
That鈥檚 why New America and Passcode launched The Cybersecurity Podcast, a monthly program featuring key leaders and thinkers in this space. The half-hour podcast will go beyond the headlines to discuss some of the most pressing issues and newest ideas in cybersecurity.
The podcast's first episode featured听Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, the Army's top cyber commander, who talked about how the Army is beefing up its cyberforces, competition for talent with the private sector, and what role the military should play when a nation-state attacks a private company.听Shane Harris, reporter at The Daily Beast and author of听'@War, The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex'听talked about tensions between the East and West Coasts in a post-Snowden era.
The podcast hosted by听, strategist at the New America think tank and author of "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know," and听Sara Sorcher, deputy editor of听.
You can find more information about the podcast on听. Bookmark听听for new episodes, available for download also on iTunes, or sign up for Passcode below.听
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