Zoom appoints advisory board with security experts – Computer – News

Zoom will partner with security experts to address various issues in the platform. The company has set up an advisory board for this. The company also brought in the former Facebook security boss Alex Stamos as a consultant.

The advisory board includes the chief information security officers from several major tech companies. They work at VMware, Netflix, Uber and EA, among others, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan writes in a blog post. “With this CISO council, we set up an advisory board with people who will advise me personally,” writes Yuan. “This group ensures that privacy and security are at the forefront of everything we do at Zoom.” In addition to the advisory board, Alex Stamos is also involved in the company. He acts as an ‘external consultant’, he writes in a blog. He does not come to work for the company, but is given ‘an accompanying role’. Stamos was the chief information security officer at Facebook when the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, but has been out of the social network since 2018.

Zoom has been experiencing a lot of problems regarding the safety of the service in recent weeks. That would include send information to Facebook, drain e-mail addresses, and access to the microphone and camera when that was not the intention. The company made last week his apologies and promised not to develop new features in the near future, but only to work on fixing vulnerabilities. Stamos defended the company earlier this month. He mentioned the incidents on Twitter shallow bugs.

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