Presentation Title Security Innovation on a Global Platform
Presentation Abstract
This keynote will discuss the ways that Facebook Security focuses on remaining innovative on an already successul site where every move is scrutinized.
Facebook’s employees have recently launched a number of unique security features that leverage the social graph, and Facebook Security leverages these front-end and behind the scenes tools to fight back against malware and other attacks. Facebook Security and Legal have also shown a unique ability to go on the offensive through innovative use of civil and criminal enforcement mechanisms. The presentation will include case studies showing application of a number of these innovations to major attacks.
About Joe Sullivan
Joe Sullivan is the Chief Security Officer at Facebook, where he manages a small part of a company-wide effort to ensure a safe internet experience for Facebook users. He and the Facebook Security Team work internally to develop and promote high product security standards, partner externally to promote safe internet practices, and coordinate internal investigations with outside law enforcement agencies to help bring consequences to those responsible for spam, fraud and other abuse. Joe also oversees Facebook’s physical security team and the company’s commerce-related regulatory compliance program, and works on other regulatory and privacy-related legal issues.
Prior to joining Facebook in 2008, Joe spent over 6 years working in a number of different security and legal roles at PayPal and eBay, including at different times, overseeing user safety policies and company relations with law enforcement agencies around the world, overseeing eBay’s regulatory compliance efforts, and managing PayPal’s North America legal team.
Before entering the private sector, Joe spent 8 years with the United States Department of Justice. He was the first federal prosecutor in a US Attorney’s office dedicated full-time to fighting high-tech crime, working on many high profile internet cases, ranging from the digital evidence aspects of the 9/11 investigation to child predator, computer intrusion, and economic espionage cases. He was a founding member of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit, a special unit based in Silicon Valley dedicated exclusively to high-tech crime prosecution. Joe has spoken extensively on internet crime investigations at law enforcement and industry conferences around the world, has testified before the U.S. Congress on online child exploitation detection and prevention initiatives, and has trained prosecutors and judges from many countries on electronic evidence and other cyber-related legal issues.