Cybersecurity speaker Michael Coates co-founded Altitude Networks and is also its CEO. San Francisco-based Altitude Networks is a startup that focuses on enterprise cloud security.

The company uses innovative technology to prevent its customers’ cloud data from being accessed without authorization. It also protects it from malicious and accidental sharing, as well as information theft. In order to identify risk, Altitude Networks employ intelligent automation to delve into patterns and variations. They efficiently safeguard SaaS apps and cloud collaboration. 

In the past, Michael served as Twitter’s Chief Information Security Officer. During his tenure at Twitter, he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s information security program. His work at Mozilla and Twitter has impacted hundreds of millions of people.

His other professional experience includes serving as OWASP’s chairman of the board of directors. OWASP is the most prominent non-profit application security organization in the world. In fact, the organization has 200 chapters in more than 100 countries worldwide. Michael serves as an advisor for several promising security startups.

Speaker Michael Coates worked as Shape Security’s Director of Product Security before joining Twitter. When he took on this position, he radically changed Shape Security’s defenses against modern application attacks.

Michael has developed security programs and overseen their implementation for some of the world’s largest banks, corporations, and governments. In 2012, SC Magazine named Michael as one of its Influential Security Minds. In addition, he has been an advisor to a number of startups.