A tiny penalty.
The CIO got a $3M bonus, too. Odd thing is that she had a music degree and little experience in IT, but was an old friend of the board members.
The CIO got a $3M bonus, too. Odd thing is that she had a music degree and little experience in IT, but was an old friend of the board members.
The reason I'm so salty about your response is when the breach happened, there were tons of news reports denigrating the CISO because she had a music degree. There may be a ton of reasons she wasn't good at her job (though it's hard to say as CISO is often a "sacrificial lamb" job anyway), and I'm certainly not defending Equifax, but I take major issue with the implication that a music degree makes someone unqualified for a tech job.
First, as she was CISO, she was presumably done with college many, many years ago. Lots of people have college degrees that aren't necessarily directed to the career they end up in. More importantly, though, I've found that there is a direct correlation between highly trained musicians and great software engineers. I don't know if it's a "same part of the brain" thing or whatever, but I'm actually astounded at the sheer number of "best of the best" software engineers I've worked with that are classically trained musicians. It's to the point that when hiring I give "extra points" if you will to musicians because, it my experience at least, the correlation is so strong.
So, frankly, you can take your "she had a music degree" shade and shove it.
People who like computers do it as a hobby. They learn programming at a young age, they get a CS degree or a hard science degree, and then they spend their spare time on tech forums like HN.
People who don't like computers play music, learn painting, or do something else. They get degrees in the arts or humanities. They spend their spare time playing music at the local pub, or whatever.
PS: One of the worst programmers I had ever met is also one of the best musicians I had ever met.
I've observed an inverse relationship between technical skill and career progression in all technical industries.
It's always the pimply junior contractor tech who is the Global Administrator doing the actual work, and the "very high level people" struggle with copy-paste from one email to another.
Well that's me and trust me, you don't want me in charge of any IT department. Maybe it's cause I also like music.
Of course lots of people get into tech from non tech but it's not a reason to go off on the commenter with an angry screed.
Also, she was CSO not CISO or CIO not that there's much of a difference between those titles in practice anyway.
OP never said 'a tech job', it is implied it would make someone unqualified for a CISO job though. And as a general rule, I tend to agree.
Sundar Pichai majored in metallurgy engineering. How much of his college coursework do you think he uses day-to-day?
The music degree scrutiny is unnecessarily derogatory and borderline misogynistic. She was a fine executive and predictably the first one thrown under the bus. I can't say she revolutionized anything, but I had no complaints about her competence. (By comparison, the male C-levels in the company I currently work under have relevant degrees from impressive institutions. I see them watching porn, engaging in insider trading and doing God knows what on Tor...while our latest two product launches failed.)
Equifax's fate was sealed by the CEO himself. We had highly-competent security teams that kept up with CVEs, ran CABs, everything a "secure" org should do...but there was always a top-down culture of "I'm not saying don't patch systems, but don't impact production" at every level. This sort of event was inevitable under Smith's leadership.