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Sep 2024
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A CSO's 9/11 Story: CSO Perspectives Bon...

N2K Networks
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For the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in 2021, Rick Howard, the CyberWire’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, recounts his experience from inside the Pentagon running the communications systems for the Army Operations Center.

Read Rick's related essay and check out his original notes of 9/11/01 written in the weeks following the attacks.

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