Rogers, Melinda
Department of Justice (DOJ) Chief Information Officer (CIO),
Sep 2020 – present. DOJ data breach Chief Information
Security Officer (CISO), Sep 2010 – Sep 2020. Equifax
Assistant Vice President (fraud detection), Sep 2000 –
Sep 2007.
No IT education. Only a BS in economics and an MBA in
marketing and finance.
Melinda Rogers came to
my attention when the
Department of Justice sued Google in Oct 2020 for violation of
the Sherman Antitrust Act with its search engine; see
IT
Incompetent Attorneys General v. Google. As DOJ CIO,
Rogers would have been consulted about the IT issues in the
case, so the DOJ's case is probably very flawed.
I then discovered that while Melinda Rogers was DOJ CISO for
10 years, there were at least two serious DOJ data breaches.
In Dec 2019 it was made public that hackers had gotten into
servers of the DOJ's U.S. Marshals Service and stolen a large
amount of private data. In Feb 2016 it was made public that
hackers had gotten into DOJ servers and stolen a large amount
of private data after compromising a DOJ employee’s email
account. The DOJ often heads investigations into important
data breaches, like
Equifax's,
but they can't possibly investigate data breaches successfully
if they don't know enough IT to protect themselves against
data breaches.