What makes a good CSO? In the wake of the Equifax breach, we talk about the controversy over that company’s CSO’s music degree. Also: we talk with Signal Sciences about why companies keep getting hacked via application vulnerabilities like the Apache Struts hole that felled Equifax. What makes a good CSO? In the wake of the Equifax breach, we are using this week’s Security Ledger podcast to talk about the controversy over that company’s CSO’s music degree.  Deidre Diamond, the CEO and founder of the placement firm CyberSN talks to us about what companies are looking for in Chief Security Officers. Also: Chris Roberts, the noted hacker known as @sidragon1 and Chief Security Architect at the firm Acalvio, talks about the convention of unconventional paths to the information security space. Roberts recounts his own twisting path to the information security space as a young hacker coming of age in the 1980s. Diamond […]

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