Jamil Farshchi, CISO, Equifax Jamil Farshchi has been there. As CISO of Equifax, he knows what it’s like to be a victim of a high-profile cyberattack. And he knows breached companies have a choice: Are they going to be a force for good by helping the rest of the industry learn from their experience?
Like other circumspect business leaders, Farshchi was blindsided by the far-reaching impact of the SolarWinds supply chain attack when it was first revealed in mid-December. And he sees it as a clear warning to cybersecurity leaders across industry: “Supply chain security is broken, and it’s time for a change.”
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For almost four years, AT&T and Nokia worked diligently to sell private wireless LTE services to utility operators around the country.
And for a while, the effort looked like it would be a smashing success. In 2019, AT&T reported it counted contracts with 15 different utility companies across 18 states in the US, with another 14 utilities on the hook. The utilities planned to lease spectrum in AT&T s WCS C and D Block holdings to build private wireless networks using Nokia s LTE equipment for a range of services like meter monitoring and disaster recovery. AT&T reasonably expect[ed] to contract with those utilities to deploy LTE smart grid service over the next 12-24 months, the operator told the FCC.