Management, up to and including the CEO, was aware of these deficiencies in controls and did not correct them, for years.
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I will bet at 100 to 1 odds that Equifax has no Madagascar button, the utility of which is obvious years before any particular breach.
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I would also bet that Equifax did not think of the question "Who has the authority to push the Big Red Button?", which serious orgs do.
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Here's another win for Japanese mgmt (we do get *some* things right): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing) … Literally anyone can push the Big Red Button.
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There is a large car company that you're aware of which begins its training about Big Red Buttons with reasons why janitors have pushed it.
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"But why would you let a janitor cost the company millions of dollars?" Because we made a considered decision about tolerances and quality.
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Equifax has apparently not made that considered decision, which is the same thing as making a considered decision... they chose this outcome
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Is “Madagascar button” a reference to this?https://youtube.com/watch?v=kNz91co_zVg …
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It’s a reference to a Flash game whose name escapes me. Pandemic 2? Plague 2? You were a virus attempting to kill all of humanity.
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Would I be geeky enough to make that reference in a serious discussion about engineering management? Of course I would.
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