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Sunday, 16 July 2017

Antivirus Industry's Dirty Little Secret

Interesting article about antivirus by KnowBe4

https://www.knowbe4.com/resources/antivirus-industrys-dirty-little-secret/


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Tony Brown
Enterprise Security Solutions Architect at global service provider. CCIE #8767. CISSP. Chartered Engineer. MSc. in Information Security. CCDE 2011:6 Chartered IT Professional. Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals. Blah blah blah
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