Her responsibility was to have a proficient security team and infrastructure. A brilliant geek isn’t necessarily the best individual for that role.
Except one thing... If you don’t have a degree and specific experience in the field, how do you know what that security team needs to be doing?
You can’t just take their word for it.
She failed. There is a reason for it. You can’t simply say, “Oh, I hired a great team, but they failed me.”
Exactly!
I was getting ready to type the same.
If the high level boss is still coding and/or getting into the nuts and bolts of systems, they’re not ready to be the overall boss.
You have people who do that.