Most CISOs just don't understand the hacker mentality says security chief

John Leonard
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N Brown's Mike Koss says CISOs need to spend more time on the front line

When Mike Koss was a script kiddie in the 1990s it was a very different world. "It was all about the ego, the arrogance, the kudos of being able to say that some high school dropout who gave up ...

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