Meta names Guy Rosen chief information security officer

A person stands in front of a indicator of Meta at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. Oct 28, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) – Facebook mother or father Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has named a business vice president as main details security officer (CISO), the 1st particular person to fill that part at the social media firm.

Male Rosen, who has been at Facebook because 2013 and most a short while ago led the company’s products safety and integrity efforts, mentioned on Twitter in his new position he “will continue to oversee and appear throughout the breadth of basic safety & safety challenges the persons who use our services, our business and market experience.”

This is the initially CISO Facebook has had. Facebook was renamed Meta Platforms in Oct 2021 but it held the name “Fb” for its social media app.

Meta Chief Govt Mark Zuckerberg reported in a memo seen by Reuters that he experienced requested Rosen to assume the position and claimed the go was “a further phase to elevate this stability work in our DNA – and strengthen our management and governance on protection difficulties.”

In his expanded role, Rosen “will have general accountability for basic safety and security close to on-system abuse as effectively as the security of our solutions, infrastructure and firm info – centered on the two inner and external pitfalls,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Facebook’s preceding chief security officer, Alex Stamos, left in 2018.

Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Katie Paul in San Francisco
Enhancing by Matthew Lewis

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