Farkh Jameel (Jamil Farshchi)

Farkh Jameel (Jamil Farshchi)

2018: Appointment of Equifax as the cybersecurity director

On February 12, 2018 it became known that the Equifax company dismissed the cybersecurity director after the largest date leak in the history which was recorded in 2017.

Jamil Farshchi who held a similar position in Time Warner, Home Depot and Visa became the new cybersecurity director. According to the Marketwatch edition, released Susan Mauldin from a duty of the Chief information security officer of Equifax Farshchi.

Around it scandal after it became clear that it had no education in the field of technologies or data protection ran high. She graduated from the University of Georgia in "art criticism and composition".

In Equifax security of personal and financial data was its fundamental obligation. In September, 2015 it became known that global date leak was caused by a software error which was known and which should be eliminated long before it.

In 2017 the management of Equifax resigned after the message of bureau of credit histories that as a result of leak of steel confidential data over 145 million people are known.

The acting as the CEO of Equifax company Paulino to Paulino do Rego Barros said that Jameel Farkhi's appointment will help the company "regain consumer confidence". He considers that Farkhi has the necessary experience and knowledge in cyber security which will allow "improve protection programs of personal data and create the new strategy of security".^[1]

According to the The Hill edition, Farkhi became the first cybersecurity director of Home Depot in due time after cracking of a computer system of more than 2 thousand shops of the company as a result of which there was a date leak of credit cards more than 50 million buyers.

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