Twitter, Google information security director both announced their resignation
On the news of March 22nd, Twitter and Google's information security supervisor announced their departure on the same day. Some media speculates that it has to do with the disclosure of more than 50 million users of Facebook, a social media giant.
Foreign media reports, informed sources, Twitter's chief information security officer Michael · Coates (MichaelCoates) has announced his resignation, and plans to create his own company after his resignation. People familiar with the matter said that Coates announced his resignation within Twitter about three weeks ago, but did not announce it. Twitter declined to comment.
The sources said, Coates announced his resignation after the temporary replacement of its work is responsible for information security and risk Twitter senior manager Joseph · Camilleri (JosephCamilleri). Camille in the last year had replaced Coates vacancies, when the latter is to take paternity leave.
In the news of the departure Coates the same day, Google information security engineering director Michael · Zelle J J Ki (MichaelZelewski) also announced at Google after 11 years of work, he is going to leave the company in the end of the month; and two days ago has been reported, Facebook chief security officer Alex · Stan Moss (AlexStamos plan) will leave the company in August this year.
According to the "New York Times" reported that the departure of Facebook chief security officer Stamos, with the company and other executives in disagreement over how to deal with social network caused by the spreading of false information. The report says Faceboo has disbanded the previous security team and reorganized a new security team. Among the 120 employees in charge of Facebook information security, almost everyone was reassigned to the product and infrastructure team. It is not clear whether Facebook has other specialized security teams, and whether this means that Facebook's security team has been integrated into other sectors.
The Facebook event has brought the information security of technology companies to the cusp. At the same time, the information security directors of many technology companies have announced their resignation, or they are not related to the increasing working pressure they are facing.