Breaches are a personal nightmare for corporate security pros

Beyond the compromise of valuable information, loss of revenues and damage to brand reputation, data breaches can pose a threat to the careers of security professionals involved: witness the sudden departures of both the CEO and the CIO of Target after last year’s compromise of 40 million customers’ credit cards.

While experts say there are no laws to hold CEOs, CIOs and CISOs personally responsible for damage done when networks are hacked, boards of director can use their power to get rid of those they blame, and there’s not much security execs can do about that.

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Network World Tim Greene