Alex Stamos

Alex Stamos is the Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, a Lecturer in the computer science department, and works on cybersecurity incidents as a Partner in the Krebs Stamos Group. As a Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Yahoo and a Co-Founder of iSEC Partners, Stamos has investigated and responded to some of the most seminal events in the short history of cybersecurity, and has been called the “Forrest Gump of Infosec” by friends. He has spoken on six continents, testified in Congress, is an advisor for NATO, served as an expert witness for the wrongly accused, earned a BSEE from UC Berkeley, and holds five patents.