Few details the circumstances of the departures were made available by Twitter, but security analysts considered it a somewhat surprising development because Zatko and Sethi had only been on the job since late 2020 — not long after Twitter’s widely reported hack that compromised the accounts of many celebrities, including then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Some speculated that Agrawal was facing pressure from investors to do more about security.
Bugcrowd reports that financial services companies had to move fast to adapt once the pandemic hit, leading to an increased interest in working with ethical hackers to fix bugs and improve security.
Mac security expert and former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle hopes the change will demonstrate a second path for security companies besides turning to venture capital.
When should security trump customer experience? It shouldn't, said PayPal Vice President of Enterprise Security Assaf Keren, during a keynote discussion at the SC Media Finance eConference. "I have a calling now in talking to security people," he said. "User experience and product management practices have got to be part of our security processes."
Today’s columnist, Amitai Ratzon of Pentera, says SecValOps offers the next step in a continued proactive security approach, a tone that’s been set all year with the Biden administration’s executive order in May.
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