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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

The truth is, unless all these people understand they own a piece of the problem and can be brought to deal with it together, you cannot manage information security. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production. But these trends, and the business responses to them, carry secondary, nonmarket risks — which may turn out to be even greater.

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Cybersecurity Is Every Executive’s Job

Harvard Business Review

Retail giant Target, for example, estimated its losses from a 2013 data breach at more than $250 million. What’s more, according to a recent survey conducted for BAE Systems of 300 managers in the financial services, insurance, and IT/tech industries in the U.S., And the potential losses are significant.

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