A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams
Summary: A KrebsOnSecurity review of the global top 100 companies by market value found just five percent listed a chief information security officer or chief security officer on their executive leadership pages, while 73 percent listed a chief human resources officer. Among the top 50 NASDAQ firms, fewer than half listed a CTO and only three featured a person with a security title.
Why it matters: At Equifax, the CSO sat under the chief legal officer rather than the CIO, IT and security rarely communicated, and the breach exposed personal and financial data on 148 million people; the House Oversight report traced the failure to that reporting structure, not just the unpatched Struts vulnerability.
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