What They Said Then, and Now

CIO, September, 2002 by Simone Kaplan, Susannah Patton, Sarah D. Scalet and Ben Worthen

Last fall in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, we asked experts what CIOs should do in critical areas. We recently contacted them to see how their views have changed.

John McCarthy, executive director of the critical infrastructure protection prt, George Mason University Law School, Arlington, Va.

Last year, McCarthy said that after 9/11 corporate leaders needed to think about people as well as computer systems when planning for disaster recovery.

NOW, McCarthy says the people side of risk management is more important now than it was last year, but since Sept. 11 most companies have still focused on using technology in preparing response to physical threats or cyberattacks. "Yet very few people in either the government or the private sector are discussing...

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