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FRUGAL HIRING

People, Process, and Technology—In That Order

Strong information security is the intersection of people, process, and technology, in that order. Often the coolness factor of the cyber security technology overshadows the criticality of the human contribution to protecting the organization. While technology can crunch big data by correlating hundreds of variables to identify potential cyber threats and incursions, it is the human capacity to associate what appears to be disparate information in an innovative way to reveal new insights that cannot be accomplished by technology alone.

A notable example of this innately human capacity to recognize threats to information security was documented in the 1989 classic cyber espionage ...

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