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Stopping Data Breaches Will Require Help from Governments

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, despite increasing security spend, most companies face significant obstacles to successfully managing cyber risk. It is simply not possible, at present, for every company in America to have sufficient internal cyber expertise to manage the risk.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

But by jumping on the buyback bandwagon — something Steve Jobs refused to do — Apple’s current top management has shown the same lack of strategic vision that has undermined many once-great American companies, including Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

It would have been tough to top PROTECT IP, but they've managed to do it. If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. Amongst many other issues, Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist at security vendor DKH points out : "It's not just that lookups to the Pirate Bay go overseas; lookups to Bank of America go overseas.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Unless the new administration in the UK manages to work out some form of a deal on immigration and work permits with the EU, its digital industries will be hobbled by a talent shortage and a steeper cost disadvantage. The coming squeeze on talent will make this situation much worse.