is continuing to reform the leadership of the company. After removing engineering and design chiefs last month, Agrawal is bringing in new leaders to the security team.
Confirmed company that former security chief Peiter Zatko has left, while chief information security officer Rinki Sethi will leave Twitter in the coming weeks. Agrawal reportedly told employees this week that staffing decisions were made after “assessing how the organization is being led and impacting top-priority work”.
Twitter , who is known as “Mudge” in the hacker community, in November 2020 after that was infringed . Previously, he worked at DARPA, Google and Stripe, and was a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow in the 90s.
Sethi, a former IBM vice president of information security, also joined the company after the Bitcoin hack in July 2020. Times, Twitter’s head of privacy engineering, Lea Kissner is temporarily taking over from Sethi’s former position.
Agrawal, who was previously a director of engineering, wasted little time reshaping Twitter after taking over the top job from at the end of November. The following month, Michael Montano and Dantley Davis, former design and engineering directors, serves to “set up Twitter to achieve its goals.”
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