But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.
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My message today is primary the same... I usually go around speaking on the threat of the human element, particularly on social engineering.
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Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
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So what you have to do is think about authenticating credit card transactions more than thinking about obfuscating the credit card number.
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