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7. Assigning Accountability

Jeremy Wittkop

(1)Boulder, Colorado, USA

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

—David Brin

I have spent a significant portion of my time since 2012 working with customers and speaking to audiences about the fact that Information Security is a business problem. Many executives were resistant to the idea because they did not want to be responsible for something they did not understand. Further, as long as senior executives could turn a blind eye to the problems presented by Information Security and simply fire their Chief Information ...

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