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“NEW NORMAL”
When Can We Get Back to Normal?
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”* Most of us recognize this as the first line of the literary classic, A Tale of Two Cities. For many information security executives, it is also a metaphor for budget cycles. While most budgets have ridden the wave of constantly changing economic conditions, we recall best budgets that allowed InfoSec to thrive and innovate, while hoping that restricted budget years would pass quickly and not affect the program’s progress in the long term. Most strategies for managing tight budgets look at adverse financial conditions as a temporary situation that will improve as the economy recovers. For the past several decades, economic cycles have followed ...
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