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THE BEST CYBERSECURITY INVESTMENT YOU CAN MAKE IS BETTER TRAINING

by Dante Disparte and Chris Furlow

As the scale and complexity of the cyberthreat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search of the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea—certainly not one that depends on technology alone.

Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe. But the major sources of cyberthreats aren’t technological. They’re found in the human brain, ...