PC ism at its worse.
How many millions of people were damaged by this music major?
My doctorate is in musicology; perhaps I can apply for the new opening.
Affirmative action strikes again...
This is beyond stupid. Just damn...
This is beyond stupid. Just damn...
Here is an article from a website I have never seen before ... The Liberty Conservative.
Equifax Chief Information Security Officer Was An Affirmative Action Hire
Sue them out of existence.
Music major for software, that is nothing.
Companies prefer H1-B foriegners who lie and fabricate their background on a fake resume. Cheap labor means quality & ability is overlooked.
It’s just unbelievable. Just about every US adult now has thier SS# with birthdate out there in God knows whose hands. For the rest of lives this will be a threat. The info is the keys. Over and over we are told to guard our SS# so now it’s out there somewhere. What a epic cluster bleep. Equifax should be de certified forever unfortunately the damage is done. Do we yet
have a clue who got the info?
But that is extremely, extremely rare. I'd say since Equifax will probably go broke due to a terrible security breach their music major didn't turn out to be an outlier like the guy I described.
Didn’t 2 CEO’s of equifax sell off their stocks right after this happened and before the public knew about it?
music major eh?
Oops I did it again
followed by Won’t get fooled again
I am not bothered by the fact that she is an art major. The reality is that Security was not a Major when she went to school. Its not a major now in most CS programs. While security is part of most CS programs. The real issue here is whether or not she had any control. Having a Security VP does not mean that she has any control over how the IT is run. She may just doll out passwords. And go to forums about security.
The reality is that the CTO is the guy who let in the hacker. Its his job to keep out the bad guys. Its the CFOs job to pay for up-to-date equipment and software. And its the CEOs job to allow the others to put in security processes and allow them to be enforced.
A self-referential example of poor security.
Myself and lots of others are saying the same thing happens when we go to the Equifax page to see if we are part of those whose info was hacked. We get a message saying we “may” have had our info hacked. Then when we go farther were asked for our SS #. You’d think Equifax would have my SS$. Something ain’t right.
Everyone is looking for someone to hang. The ones who should be hung are the members of congress since social security started in 1935. They have allowed the SSN to become the universal citizen identifier, used everywhere for everything. On my card, which I still have, it says “Not for Identification.”
I did not give Equifux permission to create a file on me, indexed on my SSN, with financial information, addresses, and names of my cats.
I did not give Experian and Transunion permission either.
I did not give the government permission to look into the file any time it wants to.
THAT is the problem.
She's not alone in this respect, but most CISO's take no responsibility for their position. She will say, "I followed company policy." I bet she was making hundreds of thousands at this job as well.
time for a class action lawsuit.
or not?