Michael Coates is the CEO & Co-Founder of Altitude Networks. A disruptor in cybersecurity, bringing the first cloud-native data loss prevention solution for Office365, Google Workspace, and other cloud collaboration platforms. Michael has worked in the information security space for the past 15 years leading security at global organizations such as Twitter and Mozilla, protecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Michael was previously the Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter, where his organization worked to protect users, systems, and data for nearly 300 million users. Before Twitter, Michael was the Director of Product Security at Shape Security, acquired by F5 in 2020. Prior, Michael was head of security for Mozilla, where he built and led the security assurance program to protect nearly half a billion Firefox users, Mozilla web applications, and infrastructure. Michael has also served on the global board of directors for OWASP, the largest non-profit application organization in the world. Michael was a member of the board for six years, three of those years as the chairman. Before building and leading security programs, Michael assessed, compromised, and secured applications and networks for some of the largest banks, governments, and enterprises worldwide. Michael is an early-stage investor and advisor to multiple startups and was also honored to be selected as an SC Magazine Influential Security Mind. Michael is based in San Francisco with his wife, two children, and a dog.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcoates/

Learn more about his business and company links here:

https://altitudenetworks.com/

http://altnet.to/CISO