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

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. Adopt software and hardware that automatically detect and apply patches.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. We’re lucky to have an amazing CTO with a deep knowledge of e-commerce and strong desire to partner with the business, and a strong team behind him.

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