Solana Foundation Appoints Michael Coates as CISO
The post Solana Foundation Appoints Michael Coates as CISO appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Solana Foundation appoints Michael Coates as Chief Information Security Officer. He said Solana’s stablecoin volumes and massive transaction activity drove him to join. Coates will strengthen Solana’s security and prepare the ecosystem for AI-driven cyber threats. The Solana Foundation has appointed veteran cybersecurity executive Michael Coates as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), bringing decades of experience in securing some of the world’s largest technology platforms to one of crypto’s fastest-growing blockchain ecosystems. Coates announced the move in a post on X, calling it a “new chapter” in his career after previously leading security at Mozilla, becoming Twitter’s first CISO, founding cloud security startup Altitude Networks, and later joining CoinList following the startup’s acquisition. He said his decision to join the Solana Foundation was driven by the network