Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home from Monday, October 22, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook wants to buy some cyber security.

Washington wants to know what Silicon Valley will do for its country.

Fred Wilson wants you to ask yourself if your investors are bad actors.

And stealing a Tesla by hacking the entry file here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. Today the information is reporting that Facebook is looking to acquire a

cyber security company. That's not a big shock to regular listeners of this pod

as every week and seemingly every day there's some sort of news related to

Facebook and data privacy, hacks, spam, you name it.

It's clear that Facebook wants to be seen investing in cybersecurity in an effort to

boost its reputation around security and of course to actually help secure

customer data against hackers. According to the report, Facebook has created an internal team devoted to finding

cyber security companies that are willing to be bought. Facebook declined to comment to the information.

But this wouldn't be the first time Facebook has acquired a cybersecurity company.

In 2014, it bought Private Corps which handles server side protection.

However, it appears that this time, whatever company Facebook buys will be focused on a different

part of the stack, perhaps maybe a firm that analyzes patterns of user logins or other analytics might fit the bill. Another possibility would be a company

that implements user-level security features to beef up the resilience of the core Facebook

log-in. Regardless of what kind of company comes in, a key reason for this acquisition is simply

to increase the number of skilled security experts Facebook employees.

That was one driver behind the private core acquisition.

But Facebook will face some hurdles in buying into this sector.

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