I have seen their degree, but that's meaningless as most of the truly talented developers and technical people I know have a degree that is not directly specific to their current role.
What was their experience before Equifax? Do you have links?
Equifax “Chief Security Officer” Susan Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts degree in music composition from the University of Georgia. Her LinkedIn professional profile lists no education related to technology or security.
Her LinkedIn profile has since been removed entirely.
A copy is shown here:
https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-offic...
She was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at First Data Corporation, until July 2013.
The snippet posted there shows her previous jobs as "professional".
No security person I know has zero security experience on their resume.
it's one thing to say it happened on mauldin's watch and as the senior person in charge of security they bear responsibility (as any leader does).
this degree stuff, however, is mostly security theater and very weak argumentation.
While I don't expect an exec to be at the same level as current researchers, they should know something about the field.
Her music degree is not completely relevant, tho it is concerning. The rest of her resume (and total lack of relevant experience) is more damning.
Look, I personally know someone who's a C level in a tech company, with a political science degree. But his resume shows 15 years of full-time employment in his current field, plus summer jobs in university, and going back to high school. So with 20 years of experience in the field, his degree doesn't matter so much.
Your counter position seems to say that execs can manage a division while knowing nothing about what the division does. There's just no way that's true. The exec must know something in order to be able to prioritize projects, set goals, mediate disagreements, etc.
Or would you say that someone who has no education in a field, and no experience in a field, is qualified to be an executive-level manager for that field?
That's just hard to believe.
If you have more insight, please do share, but there is none in those links.
So basically you're posting about the degree nonsense and non-story.
Any argument.
So far as any evidence goes, she has zero experience in the field.
So basically you're trying to nit-pick at me for saying that there's no evidence she has any experience... while not showing any evidence that she has experience.
