Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan: ‘Constant State Of Improvement’

Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan hosted reporters at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, where he detailed how the social network is maintaining and fine-tuning its security protocols in the wake of the continuing controversy about government surveillance.

DataEncryptionPadlockFacebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan hosted reporters at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, where he detailed how the social network is maintaining and fine-tuning its security protocols in the wake of the continuing controversy about government surveillance.

One of the measures Sullivan discussed was Hacktober, in which the month of October is devoted to members of the social network’s security team attempting to hack the site, and rewarding Facebook employees who discover and report the hacking attempts with T-shirts.

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