SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures

Post by pm90 » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #28

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #11

I am going bet a pillow case of slightly squished mini candy bars that Tim Brown might have been a good technologist, but that he might have been told to sit down and color. I am saying this because reading the interview notes: > BROWN: It was crazy. So our CEO got a call in the morning from [Mandiant CEO] Kevin Mandia. And then he called me, and then the CTO for FireEye called me. That’s our nightmare moment. [Oct.…

Yeah, I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one. I want folks to be held accountable, but considering the forces/incentives at play, I worry what you're left with is a CISO role that no sane person would take, so instead it's just taken by grifters who take the "gambling" route - let's just hope the chance that some major breach happens doesn't do so on my watch, but if it's "damned if I do, damned if…

Post by miohtama » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:28 AM UTC

Post by tptacek » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:29 AM UTC

PumpkinSpice wrote: post #29

tptacek wrote: post #21

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Here it's worth remembering that CISO is a "specific" role; it does not necessarily connote "most senior security person in the company"; some companies have more than one; some companies have a "CSO" and/or a chief of "risk"; at Apple (for all I know) it might just mean "most senior security person in IS&T". Apple has a sprawling and multifunctional security team. If your claim is that all of security at Apple someh…

No, the bulk of security and privacy work at Apple happens elsewhere.

Post by areoform » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:37 AM UTC

delfinom wrote: post #23

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #19

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lol. Let’s not throw Latin / Asian culture under the bus when the implicit alternative being posed is American culture. Pot meet kettle. Remember what old mate says to Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie? “We’re just better at hiding it.”

This, nepotism is rife in private American companies of all kinds from my own experiences and others. O God, there's at least one company, I personally have experience with that not only is a nepotistic hellhole, but is actively defrauding the government and a few big names. The result of spoiled brats getting control of a very niche private hardware engineering company after their father died.

Post by justinclift » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 12:39 AM UTC

golergka wrote: post #24

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #19

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lol. Let’s not throw Latin / Asian culture under the bus when the implicit alternative being posed is American culture. Pot meet kettle. Remember what old mate says to Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie? “We’re just better at hiding it.”

The fact that some culture becomes better at hiding it usually means that it's less accepted by the society, hence hiding it is more important.