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“Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access …” — Kevin Mitnick
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
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