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They probably have proportionately far fewer security employees, just far more effective ones. All snark aside, I'd guess that the vast amount of Uber security
by valuearb 9y ago
They probably have proportionately far fewer security employees, just far more effective ones.
All snark aside, I'd guess that the vast amount of Uber security staff's role is investigating driver fraud. Uber grew so immensely fast because they offered compelling sign up inducements to drivers, and in lots of cases those were easy to game. It's why Uber got caught "fingerprinting" iPhones by Apple so they could detect whether the same phone was being used to sign up for multiple driver accounts to double dip the signup bonus programs.
- jacquesm 9y agoAny two sided marketplace is rife with opportunities for fraud as well as money laundering.
- greggarious 9y ago>All snark aside, I'd guess that the vast amount of Uber security staff's role is investigating driver fraud. I thought most companies separate out pure infosec from anti-fraud? Some orgs may house both under the bubble of risk management but there's a big difference between a security engineer and an anti-fraud analyst.
- stickfigure 9y agoSince the third person mentioned in the article was "Jeff Jones, who handled physical security", I'm assuming Uber lumped anything possibly related to "security" in one org. Which does seem peculiar.
- kenbaylor 9y agoYou are correct. All things with even the vaguest hint of security and safety were lumped there. Antifraud, monitoring who touches which logs, being the sole provider of electronic evidence in all investigations, infosec, competitive information, investigating rapes, putting listening devices into the uber app .....very unorthodox.