Zoom Video Communications announced it has hired Alex Stamos as an outside advisor to help in its planned security review. He was previously Facebook's Chief Security Officer, until leaving the company in 2018 to become a researcher at Stanford university. Zoom also formed an advisory council with other security specialists.
In addition to teaching at Stanford, Stamos is a contributor to Harvard’s Defending Digital Democracy Project and an advisor to Stanford’s Cybersecurity Policy Program and UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. He is also a member of the Aspen Institute’s Cyber Security Task Force and the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the advisory board to Nato’s Collective Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
Zoom's new CISO Council and Advisory Board includes security leaders from across industries, to help the company improve the robustness of its conferencing platform for multiple types of user and adopt the latest best practices in security. The board includes CISOs from HSBC, NTT Data, Procore and Ellie Mae, among others.
A core advisory board will be formed from the council members to advise Zoom CEO Eric Yuan directly. This will include security specialists from VMware, Netflix, Uber, Electronic Arts, and others, the company said.
Yuan has also met with Zoom users in the first of a planned weekly series of 'Ask Eric Anything' webinars over the next three months. The company said over 5,900 people participated directly in the session, with many more following a YouTube live stream.
