Management Of Information Security
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Author: WHITMAN, Michael.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Competitive disadvantage:
- It is an unfavourable circumstance or condition that makes a company to fall behind the competition.
- Many companies are spending a lot of money on new technologies.
- However, these new technologies sometimes turnout to be ineffective and actually produce undesirable results...
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