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Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction
Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident ...
A CISO Employment Contract May Mean the Difference Between Success and Jail
On May 4, 2023, U.S. District Judge William Orrick sentenced former Uber CISO and former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor Joe Sullivan to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service for ...
Prosecutors Argue for 15 Months in Jail for Uber CISO
In a sentencing memorandum filed with a San Francisco federal court on April 27, 2023, prosecutors argued that Joe Sullivan—the former CISO of Uber and a former federal computer crimes prosecutor himself ...
What Uber’s Latest Data Breach Means for Third-Party Risk
Uber is in the headlines once again for losing sensitive data. However, this round of data exposure isn’t due to a breach of Uber’s facilities. Rather, New Jersey-based law firm Genova Burns ...
Former Uber CISO’s Conviction Affirmed by Trial Court
On January 11, 2023, presiding United States District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco denied the motion of Joe Sullivan, the former CISO of Uber, for a judgment of acquittal. The conviction ...
Data Security: This Time, it’s Personal
Security teams struggle to keep pace with data proliferation across their cloud environments. The cloud provides obvious business advantages, but the sheer volume of data moving to the cloud, the lack of ...
“How will the Uber Breach Verdict Affect the CISO Role in the Future?”
A Uber breach verdict was handed down that could prove highly impactful to CISOs and CSOs in the near and distant future. The post “How will the Uber Breach Verdict Affect the ...
CISO Liability Risk and Jail Time, (ISC)2 Bylaw Vote and the Value of Cybersecurity Certifications
Rafal Los, host of the popular Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast, joins us to discuss CISO liability risk and the ongoing discussion in the cybersecurity community about CISOs going to jail. Plus, ...
The Uber/Sullivan Conviction is NOT About Data Breaches
Earlier this month, former Uber CISO (and former federal cybercrime prosecutor) Joe Sullivan was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco for concealing information related to a data breach at the ...
Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password ...
