Egan-Jones Recommends “withhold” for Teradata Board Chair Due to Poor Cybersecurity Rating — Egan-Jones Proxy Services
PHILADELPHIA – March 28, 2018 – PRLog — Haverford, PA – Egan Jones Proxy Services (EJP) released a report calling for a “withhold” vote for Teradata Corporation [TDC] Chairman of the Board James M. Ringler due to the extremely poor Cyber Security Rating of “Needs Attention,” the lowest possible score which we have assigned to the company.
Historical observations of the firm’s web footprint by our cybersecurity partner show several concerns in regards to DNS health on domains used by the company. We are especially concerned that such vulnerabilities could be used to exploit other firms due to Teradata’s many business-to-
Additionally, we are recommending “withhold” votes for members of the Compensation Committee currently up for nomination due to a Compensation Rating of “Some Concerns,” the second lowest possible. This poor Compensation Rating has also resulted in a negative recommendation for the firm’s “say-on-pay”
We also note that Chairman James M. Ringler is, according to our guidelines, a member of too many public company Boards and should not be serving on the Compensation Committee.
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