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On Friday, Equifax announced that two top executives would be retiring in the aftermath of the company's massive security breach that affected 143 million Americans.
According to a press release, the company said that its Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and Chief Security Officer, Susan Mauldin, would be leaving the company immediately and were being replaced by internal staff. Mark Rohrwasser, who has lead Equifax's international IT operations, is the company's new interim CIO. Russ Ayres, who had been a vice president for IT at Equifax, has been named as the company's new interim CSO.
The notorious breach was accomplished by exploiting a Web application vulnerability that had been patched in early March 2017.
However, the company's Friday statement also noted for the first time that Equifax did not actually apply the patch to address the Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) until after the breach was discovered on July 29, 2017.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/equifax-cio-cso-retire-in-wake-of-huge-security-breach/
(Score: 1, Troll) by frojack on Wednesday September 20 2017, @06:52PM
You can't even define "risk culture" let alone make it an actionable item.
How many servers to you think this company had? I'm betting THOUSANDS.
Apparently they all got taken care of, or were at least not breached. Clearly everybody cared, or feared for their jobs enough to see that this patch got applied. One sysadmin, perhaps over worked, perhaps out sick, missed this machine. That's hardly a risk culture.
Being in business is a risk. Its the perfect definition of risk. Disasters befall every business now and then. Sometimes people get killed. Sometimes entire companies are wiped out. This situation does not rise to that. Those affected accounts get flagged for free credit monitoring for a few years. Equifax can afford it.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.