New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position

Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by Gene_Parmesan on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:31PM (#21330518)

This is where having someone on the executive team with technical experience can be such a boon. I know I'm lucky with this, but our exec (chief admin. officer) spent years in the IS ('s' is for services) department at our company -- starting as a VB dev back in the 80s. Luckily leadership is fairly forward-thinking for a nonprofit and we've been doing Angular and C# for years now. She consistently goes to bat for our director and has managed to get our CEO to understand the great difficulty involved in keeping an IS operation running smoothly.

I mean, think about it. Hospitals wouldn't fire the surgeons for consistently executing error-free operations.

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by dawnerd on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:05PM (#21330687)

When I worked at Discovery Channel I remember a call where the CEO admitted they have no idea what they're doing with regards to tech. Made my decision to leave seem smart looking back now that they've shut down Rev 3 (where I worked for a while) and the other division doing R&D. Was pretty frustrating to build stuff that would never see the light of day.

TLDR; execs that know something about tech is super important.

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