Facebook’s Security Chief Is Leaving And No One’s Going To Replace Him Just Yet
Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has taken a new job at Stanford, leaving the Menlo Park, Calif. tech giant behind, according to several reports—and he will depart Facebook Aug. 17 and will begin a teaching and research role at Stanford University in September. Stamos joined Facebook in 2015 from Yahoo, where he was also the chief information security officer and has presided over some of the issues the company has been dealing with following Russian meddling with the 2016 presidential election as well as the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. Stamos has lectured as adjunct professor at Stanford for several years, initially lectured a course called Hacklab , which offers lectures and hands-on exposure to cybercrime and cyber warfare. He will also conduct research and be part of a cross-disciplinary working group called Information Warfare that involves over a dozen faculty members. "I have had the pleasure of lecturing at Stanford for several years, and now I will have t...