{"id":1230330,"date":"2022-01-21T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1230330"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:22:07","slug":"shakeup-twitter-fires-head-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shakeup-twitter-fires-head-of-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakeup: Twitter Fires Head of Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshakeup-twitter-fires-head-of-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1230330&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Twitter has restructured its internal security team this week, terminating its head of security. The social media platform\u2019s chief information security officer is also exiting the company in the coming weeks. New CEO Parag Agrawal continues to make his mark on the Silicon Valley company.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/21\/technology\/twitter-security-team.html\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that Twitter has made major changes to its security team this week. With new CEO Parag Agrawal beginning to make changes to the firm, the company\u2019s head of security Peiter Zatko was terminated. Rinki Sethi, the company\u2019s chief information security officer, is also set to leave in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18933330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Twitter-CEO-Parag-Agrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18933330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Twitter-CEO-Parag-Agrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16872638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233272189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16872638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233272189.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder &amp; CEO of Square, attends the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by Marco BELLO \/ AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter (Photo by MARCO BELLO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sudden restructuring follows \u201can assessment of how the organization was being led and the impact on top priority work,\u201d according to a memo from Agrawal sent to company employees. Agrawal said that the \u201cnature of this situation\u201d limited how much information he could disclose before now. Agrawal was appointed to the position of Twitter CEO in November and has since shuffled company executives around.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>in December, Agrawal reorganized the firm\u2019s leadership team and terminated the company\u2019s chief design officer Dantley Davis. The firm\u2019s head of engineering, Michael Montano, was also let go from the firm. Zatko and Sethi joined Twitter in 2020, Zatko is a well-known hacker and has a long career in government and private industry. He previously held roles at DARPA, Google, and Stripe.<\/p>\n<p>Sethi worked to improve the company\u2019s security and protect user data. Previously she was vice president of informational security at I.B.M and held security roles at Walmart and Intuit.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s current head of privacy engineering, La Kissner, will take over as the company\u2019s interim chief information security officer. Kissner previously held security roles at Google and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/21\/technology\/twitter-security-team.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or email him at&nbsp;<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">lnolan@breitbart.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has restructured its internal security team this week, terminating its head of security. 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