Twitter Inc.’s chief information security officer, Michael Coates, is leaving the company, amid a wave of security-chief departures from major tech companies this week. Coates confirmed his departure in a tweet Wednesday, after the news was first reported by The Verge. Coates said he was leaving to start his own security company, and had announced his departure internally a few weeks ago. Also Wednesday, Michael Zelewski, the director of information security engineering at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, announced he was leaving the company after 11 years, and on Monday the Wall Street Journal reported Facebook Inc.’s security chief, Alex Stamos, plans to leave the company in August.
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