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Alex Stamos

Chief Product Officer, Corridor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Stamos is an information security leader who serves as Chief Product Officer at Corridor and teaches at Stanford University. He previously served as Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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301 words/min while actually speaking · 25.6 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Alex Stamos: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,386 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Alex Stamos said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Stamos: 470 of the Fortune 500 cannot defend against modern cyber adversaries
“If you look at the Fortune 500, I would say 470 of those companies are kind of screwed because they're playing at What's happened is, is that the level of adversary has caught up to a level that's well beyond their ability to play”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:13 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Opinion
Stamos: Backward compatibility neutralized Microsoft's $1 billion security investment
“It's the reason why Microsoft has spent probably a billion dollars on security in the last decade, and they still haven't gone anywhere. It's because they're not willing to do a tax service minimization due to the way they do backwards compatibility.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:20 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Preventing initial network intrusion in companies over 24 employees is impossible
“No enterprise with more than a couple dozen people is gonna keep the bad guys from first getting a foothold in their network. That's impossible.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:13 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Individual targets cannot protect themselves online against determined attackers
“The kind of inconvenient truth of the tech industry right now is that there's pretty much nothing a individual person can do to be safe online if they're targeted by a bad guy.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:24 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Insight
Stamos: Attack surface minimization is the most effective security strategy
“Attack surface minimization is by far The cheapest and most effective way to reduce your security risk.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:15 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stamos: Tech industry must redesign consumer technology safety within five years
“But beyond that, it's incumbent on us to the next five years, we need to redesign how technology works so it actually people are safe if they're targeted, not just that they're lucky.”
Alex Stamos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:01 a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call Jan 2, 2019 9m
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