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That is fucking amazing.
Please tell me this 'cybersecurity manager' was... fired, or drawn and quartered, or something.
I don't think so. No one higher up quite understood the severity, even after the ransom event. I kind of established the impression that not-for-profit c-suites are full of the leftovers. If they were any good, they'd be elsewhere earning much more.
sigh
This has also been my experience with non profit c suite.
I used to be co-lead of the data department for a non profit that dealt with PII... including medical data... spent a lot of time making sure we were doing things right.
... And then one day, one of the board members asked me to implement blockchain security on our postgres databases, in an in-person meeting.
I buried my head in my hands, looked uo, and told her "No, the blockchain is insanely insecure, its easily de-obfuscated... and it would make our systems run somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 times more slowly.... if its even possible to implement postgres running through or on ... some kind of blockchain."
She did a fake corpo smile and 'politely' ended the meeting.
... I wanted to strangle her to death.
Probably got a promotion.