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Practicing Security in Hard Economic Times

Posted Oct 16, 07:20 AM by ben

Some interesting turns of events in the financial markets lately. This will have a lasting affect on companies big and small for the next few years. So how does that affect security?

“Ease of business vs Security”. This is the typical trade-off security practitioners and businesses need to make. Arguably when times are rough financially that dictates a serious of actions by the business which includes a bigger magnifying glass on expenditures in order to control money flow. Depending on the level of pressure exerted on the company a higher degree of reactivity vs proactivity will occur as business works on meeting the needs of today vs long term. Did I mention I’m not an economist?
A few points:


Thoughts are still hazy on this for me, but I feel those will clear up as time goes on.


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