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Facebook is struggling to meet the burden of securing itself, security chief says

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Enlarge / Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos. (credit: Dave Maass)

Facebook is Struggling to live up to the responsibility it faces for adequately securing the vast amount of personal information it amasses, the social network’s top security executive said in a leaked phone call with company employees.

“The threats that we are facing have increased significantly and the quality of the adversaries that we are facing,” Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said during a taped call, which was reported Thursday by ZDNet. “Both technically and from a cultural perspective, I don’t feel like we have caught up with our responsibility.”

He continued:

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It’s A Good Time To Consider Securing Your Personal Data – Android Headlines

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Android Headlines

It's A Good Time To Consider Securing Your Personal Data
Android Headlines
Online security both on computers and on mobile devices has been increasingly more important over the years but in just the last few it seems to have been more of an issue. Android has always had a bad reputation for being an operating system that wasn …

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7 tips for securing the Internet of Things

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Can you join the IoT craze without having your devices turned against you? Here are 7 tips for protecting yourself…
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Startup Ionic Security takes the sweat out of securing documents

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Well-funded startup Ionic Security has launched a data-protection service that guards encrypted documents no matter where they go until access is authorized by its policy engine based in the cloud, making it possible to protect data even if the files that contain it fall into the wrong hands.

Ionic controls access to the keys needed to unlock encrypted documents so only those who are meant to access the data have the ability to decrypt it. In addition, the service sets policies on what can be done with the data once it’s accessed.

Ionic Security CEO Steve Abbott

Ionic Security CEO Steve Abbott

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Network World Tim Greene