Notebook: CISOs Talk About Backgrounds, Industry Threats
Dan DeFrancesco puts together some of the best quotations leftover from his feature on the rise of CISOs.

For the April issue of Waters, I put together a feature detailing the rise of chief information security officers (CISOs) at firms in the financial services industry.
I was fortunate enough to speak to seven CISOs at a variety of firms. When working on a feature, to pull a phrase from moviemaking, a lot of good material ends up getting left on the cutting room floor. So, instead of just letting all those good quotes go to waste, I figured it would be worth it to pull together a compilation of
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