Twitter chief data safety officer Lea Kissner departs • TechCrunch

Twitter’s most senior cybersecurity staffer Lea Kissner has departed the social media large.

Kissner introduced the transfer in a tweet on Thursday, saying they made the “exhausting resolution” to go away Twitter, however didn’t say for what purpose they resigned. Elon Musk accomplished a $44 billion takeover of Twitter two weeks in the past, leading to layoffs affecting greater than half of the corporate and the departure of senior executives, together with CEO Parag Agrawal, basic counsel Sean Edgett, and authorized coverage chief Vijaya Gadde.

Information of Kissner’s departure was first reported by Casey Newton. Twitter’s chief compliance officer and chief privateness officer additionally resigned on Wednesday, Newton stated.

It’s not instantly clear who’s chargeable for Twitter’s day-to-day safety operations following Kissner’s departure. A spokesperson for Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Kissner, who beforehand served as Twitter’s head of privateness engineering, was appointed Twitter’s chief data safety officer (CISO) in January 2022 following the departure of safety head Peiter “Mudge” Zatko and then-CISO Rinki Sethi. Mudge went on to blow the whistle to federal regulators claiming safety mismanagement and lax entry controls that put customers’ knowledge in danger.

Twitter is at present underneath a 2011 settlement with the Federal Commerce Fee which accused Twitter of cybersecurity failings that allowed cybercriminals to entry inner techniques and person knowledge. The decree mandates that Twitter “set up and keep a complete data safety program” to be audited each decade. It’s not clear how Twitter maintains that compliance with the FTC with out a firm safety lead in place. One worker stated in a company Slack that it was for Twitter engineers to “self-certify” compliance with the FTC.

Earlier this yr, Twitter was fined $150 million for violating that 2011 consent decree for misusing electronic mail addresses and telephone numbers supplied by customers to arrange two-factor authentication for focused promoting.