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>More likely they just weren't getting things done fast enough I'd be surprised if that warranted the “nature of this situation” language.
by tyingq 5y ago
>More likely they just weren't getting things done fast enough
I'd be surprised if that warranted the “nature of this situation” language.
- staticassertion 5y agoIt could mean so many things tbh. It's true though, it's a very odd way to phrase it. It certainly doesn't feel like a typical CISO exit, but idk.
- tptacek 5y agoIf it's a straight-up termination, that's what you'd expect the company to say (it's extremely unusual for a company to provide backstory for why they're firing senior management, even if the reason is really boring, like "we've lost confidence in the current path the organization is on and feel like we need to take a new direction").
- aerostable_slug 5y agoI find it odd the CISO gets two weeks to transition things while the Head of Security (does that get an acronym?) got shown to the door. The latter doesn't seem as much like a straight-up termination for ordinary performance reasons. Then again, I was at a large company where the CISO managed to get insta-fired in a 1:1 with the CIO. I actually saw the person about two minutes after it happened while they were grabbing their jacket and heading for the door — I don't know what was said, but judging by appearances things got really heated and the CIO had enough. Corporate security appeared shortly to begin boxing things up.
- tptacek 5y agoI don't know what the "head of security" role is. I have no inside knowledge here. But if he wasn't on many people's reporting chain, and a big part of his role was talking to external people and selling Twitter's security program --- not an unusual portfolio for a CSO! --- then there might have been no reason to ask him to hang around. You tend not to have your outgoing CSO do high-profile meetings to sell your security programs exsternally.