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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? ™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. An excerpt is below.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability. It is ultimately up to each of us to make a difference. They have remained, instead, CTO''s. CIO''s have never broadly achieved their destiny.

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