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Facebook Security Chief Says Its Corporate Network Is Run 'Like a College Campus' (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the leaked-recordings dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Facebook's security chief has told employees that the social media giant needs to improve its internal security practices to be more akin to a defense contractor, according to a leaked recording obtained by ZDNet. Alex Stamos made the comments to employees at a late-July internal meeting where he argued that the company had not done enough to respond to the growing threats that the company faces, citing both technical challenges and cultural issues at the company. "The threats that we are facing have increased significantly and the quality of the adversaries that we are facing," he said. "Both technically and from a cultural perspective I don't feel like we have caught up with our responsibility. The way that I explain to [management] is that we have the threat profile of a Northrop Grumman or a Raytheon or another defense contractor, but we run our corporate network, for example, like a college campus, almost," he said.

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  1. Hacked by geekymachoman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, considering their 1.2 billion people DB hasn't leaked .. I guess they're doing OK job, compared to let's say yahoo... who have been hacked like 3 times in 5 years ? Or linkedin. Or equifax.. or ..

    1. Re:Hacked by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well, if you run your network like a college campus, you probably wouldn't know if you're being hacked.

      So ... let's put it that way, when you're blind, you can't see the elephant standing in front of you as long as he doesn't step on your foot.

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    2. Re:Hacked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      OR, if you're running a college campus network, you assume it's the worst combination of raw internet and bored / mischievous students; so the network itself you treat as untrustworthy and build better systems on top. You assume constant hacking so you build systems tough rather than complacently relying on 'defense contractor firewalls'.

      Let's hope that's what's happening.

  2. College Campus? by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speaking as an IT Professional working at a large University I can assure you we take network security very very seriously. I believe Facebook would be envious of our network security teams.

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