Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan: We Were Bolstering Security Before Prism
Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said at the Hack in the Box HITBSecConf2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that the social network was already in the process of implementing stronger security controls before news broke of the National Security Agency's Prism online surveillance initiative in June, IDG News Service reported.
Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan said at the Hack in the Box HITBSecConf2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that the social network was already in the process of implementing stronger security controls before news broke of the National Security Agency’s Prism online surveillance initiative in June, IDG News Service reported.
Sullivan said, as reported by IDG News Service, that Facebook enabled Transport Security Layer encryption as its default in July, so data such as chat contact lists are now encrypted, adding that the social network will move to 2,048-bit RSA encryption from 1,024-bit, and it plans to implement another encryption feature, Perfect Forward Secrecy.
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