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Five Things that Scare CIOs

October 24, 2011

What scares a chief information officer? We’d guess it involves the words “service interruption,” but that’s just a guess.

In honor of Halloween, NASA Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton outlined five things that scare a CIO including darkness, spider webs, graveyards, haunted houses and headless horsemen (don’t get really scared, they all actually tie in IT).

Read Cureton’s post.

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