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I wonder how many H1-B's they had working for Equifax?

The chief security job was taken by a womyn with no qualifications whatsoever (non-tech degree). Since then they tried to cover her tracks. There's actually documents where she ridicules questions about cloud security in an interview. Go figure.

mell says

The chief security job was taken by a womyn with no qualifications whatsoever (non-tech degree). Since then they tried to cover her tracks. There's actually documents where she ridicules questions about cloud security in an interview. Go figure.

Holy Shit. She's got a bachelor and masters in music and the fine arts, not one IT or data science qualification, not a single certificate, and then she scrubbed her LinkedIn profile. Then re-added it with an abbreviated last name, just listed the two degrees, now unspecified, and then added a shitload of non-specific "skills", including "IT Outsourcing"

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-major-as-the-companys-chief-security-officer-2017-09-15
An interview where she mentions she hires trained auditors, data science people, etc. but doesn't mention she seeks out Music Majors:
https://archive.is/Wn27R
Wow. Wonder who she's related to.

And the CIO, a guy, has a degree in Russian from University of London and a Master's in Business from Kellogg. No IT training is evident.

mell says

The chief security job was taken by a womyn with no qualifications whatsoever (non-tech degree).

I see this often where they give security and compliance jobs to numbskull to satisfy the diversity quota. Because running the business is important, so they don't want to ive it to someone who cna burn it to the ground, but security/compliance used to e easy-not anymore.

It is time for pC to end.

interesting i wonder if this will open them up to liablity-because they hired a numbskull?

Outsourcing comes at a cost not always obvious until you are fucked... in retrospect

Technology is my God.
It's infallible.

FortWayne says

Outsourcing comes at a cost not always obvious until you are fucked..

This reality will hit many that outsource. I don't understand many of these CIOs. Yes it's better to hire 20 shitty people at $50 per hour vs two masters at $250-300 per hour. Let's see $1000 an hour for 20 shitty people will give you poor solutions and security holes vs $500-600 an hour will provide solid solutions and architectures.

#fuckequifax

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/equifax-ceo-smith-resigns-barros-named-interim-chief-after-hack

Equifax CEO Richard Smith Resigns

Smith may get at least $18.4 million in retirement payouts.