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> Joe Sullivan, the outgoing security chief, spearheaded the response to the hack last year, a spokesman told Bloomberg. Sullivan, a onetime federal prosecutor
by leroy_masochist 9y ago
> Joe Sullivan, the outgoing security chief, spearheaded the response to the hack last year, a spokesman told Bloomberg. Sullivan, a onetime federal prosecutor who joined Uber in 2015 from Facebook Inc....
Why on earth would a software-based company like Uber that stores a boatload of confidential employee and customer information on its servers put a non-technical person of any sort, lawyer or not, in charge of its security team?
- moxious 9y agoPut a lawyer in charge when your strategy is to defend lawsuits against issues and mitigate the fallout of issues, rather than to, you know, prevent the security issues
- dba7dba 9y agoWelcome to lobbying ver, 2.0. Instead of giving cash bribe, bribe with cushy jobs with high salary and no real responsibility, since no one would expect a lawyer to understand what even to delegate to members of IT security team.
- eropple 9y agoSecurity, as far as a corporate entity is concerned, is fundamentally a way to reduce business and legal risk. A lawyer at the top, making those decisions with the input of technologists, seems like it should be reasonable when things are working correctly. This isn't a failure of skillset or knowledge, it's a failure of ethics and leadership. (Which should, to be clear, be punished far more severely than skill-related incompetence.)