Guy Rosen has been appointed to the position of CISO – VP of Information Security at Meta, according to a report by the Reuters agency tonight (Tuesday). The appointment to the new position at the company was made by Mark Zuckerberg himself, who passed a memorandum on it.
“I asked Rosen to fulfill the role,” he said, “this is a step designed to upgrade the security field in our DNA – and strengthen our security leadership.”
Rosen has been working on Facebook / Meta since 2013, when the company acquired the start-up Onavo that Rosen founded with Roy Tiger for about $ 120 million.
Prior to his appointment, Rosen was a senior vice president of Facebook for Products and was primarily involved in security and integrity issues. He is considered one of Zuckerberg’s associates and most likely before thanks to the retirement of Cheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg’s veteran VP of operations and right-hand man for the past decade. Rosen himself wrote on Twitter about his new role: “I will continue to review and monitor the security and safety threats facing service users as well as those who threaten our society and industry.”
Facebook has operated without a senior executive on information security and cyber issues since Alex Stamos left it in 2018. Since the company changed its name to Meta, the role has not been staffed, but now with growing concerns about user safety in the meteorological worlds Facebook is promoting, there is probably no escape from being in charge of managing and coordinating the issue, and this is the first time such a role. In the last month there have been reports that users of virtual platforms such as Roblox have experienced incidents of virtual violence between them.
According to a special report by the non-profit Sum Of Us, which deals with the protection of users and consumers against big tech companies, and was published last week (https://www.sumofus.org/images/Metaverse_report_May_2022.pdf), the issue of violence in the virtual worlds Very worrying – because it has not been specifically addressed by the companies that operate these platforms so far. Rosen’s appointment is apparently intended to add this tier into Facebook’s activity policy at Mowers from the planning stages and not wait for the service to be activated to address it.
According to Zuckerberg, Rosen’s role will be to “take responsibility for the safety and security of our platform, as well as the security of the company’s products, infrastructure and data – focusing on outside and inside threats,” Zuckerberg said. Rosen’s appointment is a bit ironic, although he has a lot of experience when it comes to dealing with threats against Facebook users in the company.
But Onbo, the company that acquired Facebook, has come under fire as the technology has been used by Facebook to analyze and collect user data without permission. In January 2019, it was revealed on the TechCrunch website that Onbo’s technology was used by Facebook to operate a back door in the Facebook Research app, which allowed for covert access to a great deal of information about users, who were mostly minors. Facebook announced in response that it had removed the Onbo apps from the app store.