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The Five Most Shocking Things About the ChoicePoint Data Security Breach
At first, the ChoicePoint security breach seemed not only ordinary but almost insignificant.
By Sarah D. Scalet
Timothy Williams, CSO of Nortel Networks, seems to agree. ChoicePoint can be a watershed moment, he says, but only if CSOs use it to get support for their jobs and make a good case for why companies shouldn't approach risks within the narrow confines of "IT security" or "fraud" or "investigations."
"We can take a bad situation and build some good processes around it," Williams says. "Then we're seizing the opportunity."
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