She may not have been hired to set up a firewall but she should know what one is, how it works and what it does and doesn’t do.
And you and others do not know if she did or did not. I’m not trying to defend her but the comments in the discussion thread are weak, show bias, and are uninformed. Besides, the key point, is she personally or by her group’s actions or inactions responsible for the hack? The hack did not occur because she is a woman, a white woman, a music major, etc., did it? Maybe, and more likely, Equifax is a universally hated company or at least its line of business is. It is a data-rich target.