The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
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Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#2While it's easy to jump on the Equifax Sucks Bandwagon (they do), I find it hard to believe that the degree earned has anything to do with this breach.
Are you absolutely certain that if their Chief Security Officer had a degree in CS that things would have been different?
Attacking someone a personal level like this is tempting in a case this serious, but it's in poor taste and will yield exactly 0 results. The data can't be un-breached, and placing blame in hindsight is unhelpful and will only escalate to more personal attacks.
Let's not pour oil on the 'Stem degrees are the only good degrees' echo chamber fire.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#3While it's easy to jump on the Equifax Sucks Bandwagon (they do), I find it hard to believe that the degree earned has anything to do with this breach. Are you absolutely certain that if their Chief Security Officer had a degree in CS that things would have been different? Attacking someone a personal level like this is tempting in a case this serious, but it's in poor taste and will yield exactly 0 results. The data…
It doesn't mean she didn't know what she was doing, but it certainly looks bad. A company whose CSO doesn't have a technical degree is going to have a harder time proving they took security seriously.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#4While it's easy to jump on the Equifax Sucks Bandwagon (they do), I find it hard to believe that the degree earned has anything to do with this breach. Are you absolutely certain that if their Chief Security Officer had a degree in CS that things would have been different? Attacking someone a personal level like this is tempting in a case this serious, but it's in poor taste and will yield exactly 0 results. The data…
It doesn't mean she didn't know what she was doing, but it certainly looks bad. A company whose CSO doesn't have a technical degree is going to have a harder time proving they took security seriously.
True. I'm just trying to caution against this turning into a witch hunt against one specific person when the entire company from top to bottom was in the wrong.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#5If I hadn't quit college to continue my tech career, I would have ended up with a degree in Sociology.
Would having a non-Tech degree make me less qualified than someone who has no degree? Of course not. It proves I can do the drudge work necessary to earn a degree, without which I must fall back on testimonials.
They have an MFA. That's a hell of a lot of hard work. Proves they are capable of doing hard work.
I don't see what the problem is here.
EDIT: Received a BA, magna cum laude, and MFA, summa cum laude. That's impressive regardless of the field. That's "succeed at all costs".
EDIT: Changed BS to degree in the first paragraph because I have no clue wtf makes something BA or BS. It's an arbitrary division that's used primarily as a weapon to disrespect women and is not a valid distinction of "intelligence" or "science-capable" or "technical-capable" in the modern era in any way whatsoever.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#6If I hadn't quit college to continue my tech career, I would have ended up with a degree in Sociology. Would having a non-Tech degree make me less qualified than someone who has no degree? Of course not. It proves I can do the drudge work necessary to earn a degree, without which I must fall back on testimonials. They have an MFA . That's a hell of a lot of hard work. Proves they are capable of doing hard work. I don…
> I don't see what the problem is here.
The massive breach of personal information.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#7While it's easy to jump on the Equifax Sucks Bandwagon (they do), I find it hard to believe that the degree earned has anything to do with this breach. Are you absolutely certain that if their Chief Security Officer had a degree in CS that things would have been different? Attacking someone a personal level like this is tempting in a case this serious, but it's in poor taste and will yield exactly 0 results. The data…
It doesn't mean she didn't know what she was doing, but it certainly looks bad. A company whose CSO doesn't have a technical degree is going to have a harder time proving they took security seriously.
Would it be less offensive to the HN community if her degree was in Math?
And, then, given that Music is entirely dependent on mathematical principles, and Music Theory especially: What are the chances that, as an MFA in Music, she has a rock solid background in mathematics?
Does that make her choice of degree less distasteful?
Would we be having this conversation if she had no degree? (Of course not.)
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't mean she didn't know what she was doing, but it certainly looks bad. A company whose CSO doesn't have a technical degree is going to have a harder time proving they took security seriously.
True. I'm just trying to caution against this turning into a witch hunt against one specific person when the entire company from top to bottom was in the wrong.
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Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#9If I hadn't quit college to continue my tech career, I would have ended up with a degree in Sociology. Would having a non-Tech degree make me less qualified than someone who has no degree? Of course not. It proves I can do the drudge work necessary to earn a degree, without which I must fall back on testimonials. They have an MFA . That's a hell of a lot of hard work. Proves they are capable of doing hard work. I don…
> I don't see what the problem is here. The massive breach of personal information.
I don't understand. Could you help me understand? I'm not able to see the connection you see between an MFA in Music and the Equifax breach, and I'll need you to describe it clearly in order to comprehend what you're trying to say here.
Re: The Equifax Chief Security Officer Received a BA and MFA in Music Composition
#10Would the breach appear worse if her degree was in CS or not? Seems the HN community is trying to correlate her degree to the breach and this is virtually impossible. Her MFA did not cause the breach nor is their an identifiable correlation.