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Re:Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work ou... by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @06:15PM (#18028097)
Depends on how big their team is and its structure with regard to alerting responsibility. One would expect one of the big credit rating agencies to have a large IT team, but old school corporations view IT as a cost center and like to run skeleton crews (which can flatten out administration hierarchies).
Re:Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work ou... by CreatedAccount on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:40PM (#18028534)
I work for one of the big three and we generally are pretty lean when it comes to staffing.

Our CEO likes to claim it benefits us because then they don't have to do big layoffs during downturns.

Re:Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work ou... by zentiggr on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:10PM (#18028960)
"Can't chop off heads if there aren't enough to start with" .... now there's MBA logic for you.
Re:Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to work ou... by adrianmonk on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:37PM (#18029579)
Well, if there are zero consequences to failure, why spend money preventing it? Maybe it does benefit companies in that position.