By Meta Careers
More than one billion people around the world use Facebook to connect with their friends, family, and communities. Facebook Security understands the importance of keeping those interactions secure, and the team strives each day to create and maintain the safest environment possible for people on Facebook and their data.
- Investigations - understands threats deeply, detect threats early, investigates abuse thoroughly, responds rapidly, and deters aggressively.
- CERT – detects, analyzes, and responds to attacks against Facebook’s digital assets. Triages and responds to security detection alerts: Host IDS, Network IDS, Email IDS, etc.
- Online Safety – tackles the largest safety issues impacting vulnerable populations (children, activists, etc). Bridges Facebook's many safety related teams, as well as external partners, and engages cross-industry groups and safety experts working on technical safety solutions in order to improve safety efforts internally.
- Threat Intelligence – protects and defends Facebook and its community by surfacing, tracking, and mitigating global advanced threats and informing security decision-making across the company. Works cross-functionally to contextualize the risks associated with the company's goals and implements the right countermeasures.
- Corporate Security – provides safety, resilience, and protection of Facebook’s corporate information assets while fostering a culture of innovation and transparency.
- Global Information Security – develops and drives the Global Information Security program to support and fuel business growth by providing secure and trusted security solutions.
- Red Team – augments internal offensive security testing, orchestrates both simple and advanced Red Team scenarios, and works to challenge Blue Team assumptions or protections. Helps fix problems following exercises or penetration tests and holistically improves incident detection and response.
- Policy, Risk, & Compliance – builds trust with companies that conduct business with Facebook. Codifies efforts to secure Facebook’s data.
- Dedicated Security Partnership Program – enables Facebook to grow and seize bold opportunities while ensuring decisions are made with full security context. Partners with larger projects, strategically significant company-wide efforts, acquired companies, and product teams.
- Security Operations – works closely with key internal partners to support and drive cross functional goals. Thinks about impact and how to scale effectively. Supports management with the development of goals, processes, and vision. Identifies and implements process improvements and solutions.
- Security Recruiting – hires technical talent that keeps people on Facebook and business data secure from malicious actors. Looks for engineers who are ethical hackers at heart and have interest in building defenses that keeps Facebook safe.
The Facebook Security team also works cross functionally in the following areas:
Detection and Security Infrastructure:
- Detection Systems: builds infrastructure to enable other teams at Facebook to fight abuse, ads fraud, payments fraud, and more.
- Data Protection: builds the systems and frameworks for engineers to fulfill the commitments made to people on Facebook in handling their data.
- Product Security: supports and ensures secure engineering across all of the Facebook family of products. This is accomplished in the following ways:
- Conducting assessments to evaluate the security of Facebook's codebase
- Making code secure and easier to write for all of Facebook's codebases by writing better abstractions and helping migrate existing code
- Developing automated tools that leverage static and dynamic analysis, and operate our Bug Bounty Program
Network Security: builds defenses for Facebook’s global network presence. Focuses on global infrastructure threats across all Facebook’s networks. Detects and responds to threats. Helps Facebook stay connected to the broader community while keeping its infrastructure secure.
The safety and trust of people on Facebook is our number one priority. We operate at an unprecedented scale. We are building the technologies that lay the groundwork for billions of people around the world to connect and share with each other safely.
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