Not sure it's that relevant, if it had been accountancy no one would have blinked.
When I went to University, not even 20 years ago you had Computer Science and that was the only real choice around computers. I avoided that because I don't particularly like programming. There were just starting to be Business Information Systems degrees but they were mostly at lower end schools. IT security boiled down to very simple things, primarily around secure coding standards and physical security (ooo not much internet)
Most people from that era, and they are the ones starting to get C titles; it was in something else. I did economics, I'm still near the top of my field and no one questions it.
Plus who sit's at 18 thinking "oh yeah information security, that's the life for me". That sphere is judged on experience and CISM/A's and things like SABSA. They don't give a shit about college.
The mysogeny in some of these posts is ridiculous. Her being a woman had nothing to do with the fact that she's ultimately been found lacking in her job. As for education, music theory is hard, she must have loved it but it didn't work out or she found something she loved more. How many people is that true for?
She should have put in the framework, process and systems that made sure that a secure configuration was validated continuously so that when some retard misconfigures S3 due to an errant change then it's caught, incident raise and resolved. End.
>>The mysogeny in some of these posts is ridiculous.
Sorry, but all stereotypes have a basis in truth.
In my case noted above, we had a lady IT boss pulling highly skilled, highly paid people off of mission critical projects to clean closets.
Who cares what's in dusty old closets? Who does that?
A woman, that's who does that. Closets are important to her as a woman and she couldn't see past that.
She didn't understand IT and she didn't even care about IT. She was thinking closet space for shoes and handbags (or whatever the fuck).
Why would she not hire cheap temps to do the janitorial work?
Because she didn't understand the basics of what IT people do and why they can't be wasting time on that crap.
She also really seemed to enjoy the "I am woman, hear me roar!" thing. She loved bossing the guys around.
I'll fess up and say that there are women in IT who know their stuff, I've worked for one or two of them. Even with that said, I still had to
man-splain many technical issues to them. The women were far better at project management, customer contact, etc.
Men and women have different strengths and weaknesses and it's ridiculous to pretend that isn't the truth.
Most women do not belong in IT work. And most men should not be interior decorators. That's just the truth of it.
It's the fear of misogyny or political correctness that keeps leading us down the path of destruction.
This woman at Equifax got that position BECAUSE she's a woman, even though she had no credentials to have that position.
After we beat this subject to death, then we can talk about how it's such a great thing that illiterate inner city minorities are
given preference and money to go to college when they couldn't pass standardized testing in the public schools.
Sure, let's just give everybody who is unqualified a free pass with lots of money and freebies "because it's the right thing to do".
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