Security News > 2022 > January > Twitter's top security staff out after incoming CEO shakes things up

Twitter's head of security and CISO both ejected from the social media biz this month.

He's now out of the micro-blogging site, as is CISO Rinki Sethi, who was also recruited in 2020 to fix up Twitter's security.

According to an internal memo seen by the New York Times, both are the latest victims of new CEO Parag Agrawal's move to remake the business under his management after Jack Dorsey's resignation.

Mudge's exploits are legendary, and Sethi is one of the most highly regarded security folk in Silicon Valley, with stints at eBay, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks.

New CEOs like to put their own stamps on a company, and some have suggested the new direction might be down to personal differences on certain technologies - such as cryptocurrencies and blockchains, which Twitter is showing a sudden interest in.

Healthcare tech biz Cynerio claims 73 per cent of IV pumps have a known computer security vulnerability, a good proportion of medical systems are using a default or weak password, and a third of bedside IoT devices have "An identified critical risk." .

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