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.