Rockwell, Nick
New York Times (NYT) Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Nov 2015
– present. Conde Nast (includes IT magazines Wired and
Ars Technica) CTO, Feb 2015 – Nov 2015.
No IT education. Only a BA in literary
theory.
As Rockwell says,"Responsible for all technical product
development, operations, and infrastructure", i.e. all IT,
which includes cybersecurity. When there is only a CTO, as at
the NYT, he/she is equivalent to a Chief Information Officer
(CIO) or Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or both.
The title CTO is often used instead of CIO or CISO to avoid
responsibility after there has been a data breach (hacking),
like at
Equifax;
see "musical titles" in
Booz
Hacks Fed IT, Makes It Incompetent, Insecure,
Bankrupt.
Rockwell applies his BA in literary theory to cybersecurity at
the world's foremost media hacking target. Not only does the
NYT foolishly think its IT incompetent writers can write about
IT — see
Nicole Perlroth
and
Sheera
Frenkel — it dangerously thinks they can also
actually do IT! The denouement of this farce is a fait
accompli.
Hackers could hack into the NYT and change its stories. The
problem with this is, NYT stories are already so questionable
(e.g., the fabricated stories of NYT writer Jayson Blair)
probably nobody would notice or care.