CSO Compass Award: Erin Jacobs

10.05.2010
Many CSOs might prefer that the issues raised by Facebook, Twitter and blogs just go away. Not United Collections Bureau CSO Erin Jacobs. She has embraced social networking to create her own forum for pushing the boundaries on the matters she holds dear: security, Mac OS X and gender issues in information security. Not your average CSO, Jacobs has cultivated an online presence using the handle SecBarbie (www.secsocial.com/blog).

: When it started in '05, it was about security sociability. I'd blog for humor, lightheartedness, post about things that amused me. I never anticipated any sort of following or readership. It is a space where I discuss security industry-related challenges I experience in my workplace, or discuss vendors. It was just my blog, very self-serving. I really don't think of it as being on some high horse or a huge pedestal.

Often, I am using SecBarbie to just poke fun at myself.