Well, that person, that person's boss, and so on up to the CEO. The one who is paid such a large salary to ultimately be responsible for the entire company.
Former Equifax CEO says breach boiled down to one person not doing their job
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#12Having just a single point of human failure standing in the way of leaking 145M people's data is already negligent. Trying to foist responsibility onto this poor individual (presumably some lower-rung employee) is shameful and just goes to show how ripe their corporate culture was for something like this to happen.
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#14FTA "The notion that just one person didn’t do their job and led to the biggest breach in history is quite an amazing claim and shows a fundamental lack of good security practices."
"Amazing" is a word I would use, but not the first one. Or even one of the first few.
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#15This is shamefully terrible leadership. If you're the CEO and a subordinate fucks up, it means you fucked up. At the end of the day the performance of the entire company is your responsibility.
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#16This is how it always goes down. - F*ck your customers over by gross negligence and sheer greed (or stupidity, or both) - Get caught with your pants down - Dump your stocks and cash out - Apologize when customers and media express outrage - Go to Congressional hearing and repeat the magic words "I do not recall" for every question - Find 1 low-level scapegoat employee - Fire that employee and declare that the company…
You missed "Sell your stock"
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#17this is the problem. OWN YOUR SHIT.
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#18The CEO is right that it boils down to being one person's fault. He should know since he sees him every day in the mirror.
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#19Yes, him. Guess what, you are (were) the CEO and you are legally required to be responsible for what your public company does. Blaming anyone else is what terrible CEOs do.
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#20People (generally) do the best job they can within the constraints they operate under. If someone isn't, say, patching things in a timely way, the most likely explanation is not that the person is lazy or stupid, but that the system is broken.
And if you run a company with a lazy, stupid person being on the critical path for your most important systems? Your systems are broken, because that person shouldn't be there.