Two people who left their last jobs in the middle of beer scandals they have teamed up to rehabilitate the image of a company that is definitely going through its worst days.
Former Director of Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency Chris Krebs fired without ceremony by President Trump Following the November elections, he founded a new company with Alex Stamos, the former head of Facebook security operations, who left the company among revelations about his involvement in the scandalous Cambridge-Analytica scandal. Only called Krebs Stamos Group, the startup already has its first customer: a small company called SolarWinds.
This is right. Software company in the middle of the year the biggest hack in American history hired Krebs and Stamos as consultants to help restore confidence in their brand. Now ubiquitously known as the “SolarWinds hack” apparently of Russian origin the cyber intrusion scandal ensued both the public and private sectors and continues to grow. About 18,000 entities are he is believed to have been affected by it, and the extent to which state-backed hackers probably managed to gather information through their operations is still unclear.
“Armed with what we have learned about this attack, we are also reflecting on our own security practices and looking for opportunities to improve our position and policies.” a SolarWinds spokesman told Bloomberg News. “We brought the expertise of Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos to assist in this review and to provide the best guidance in our class on our journey to evolving into a secure, industry-leading software development company.”
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Hiring Krebs and Stamos is an interesting move – given that, like SolarWinds, they have a significant professional reputation which, however, has been forced to deal with various major IT scandals.
Previously, Krebs was the director of CISA, one of the most prominent cyber positions in the federal government. Trump fired Krebs after refusing to support Fr.the resident is fake claims that there are “rigged elections” and electoral fraud. While Krebs is said to have assisted presiding over the “safest elections” ever, also served at CISA, while Hackers SolarWinds seemed to break into every conceivable federal agency – not a spectacular thing on the CV.
Meanwhile, Stamos previously worked as a security executive at Yahoo at one time when Russian hackers compromised about 500 million Yahoo user accounts. He joined Facebook in 2015 as araised ssecurity omore difficult, but very public he left the company three years later when he became involved in the Cambridge-Analytica scandal. Stamos pleaded for “more revelations about the Russian interference of the platform and some restructuring to better address the issues,” but was met with resistance by the company’s management. New York Times compared to that time.
Krebs announced the news of his new concert and of Stamos, via Twitter, on Friday morning.
Although it is not clear yet what kind of services Krebs Stamos Group will offer (or who, if any, their other customers), The duo’s website is currently talking about giving their customers an understanding of “the threats they faceAnd “the weaknesses of their position”, while giving them “sincere, sincere and experienced advice on critical and long-term decisions in times of extreme crisis”. Certainly, Stamos and Krebs have experience in this regard.