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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.